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This is not entirely accurate. LLVM was started by Chris Lattner before he was hired by Apple, which were probably spooked by gcc going GPLv3 by then.
by cataphract 6y ago
This is not entirely accurate. LLVM was started by Chris Lattner before he was hired by Apple, which were probably spooked by gcc going GPLv3 by then.
- GeekyBear 6y agoLLVM and Clang are both projects started by Chris Lattner, but they are not the same project. Do you mean that Clang leverages LLVM on the back end?
- sirn 6y agoYes for LLVM, but Clang was made entirely while Chris Lattner was employed by Apple[1]. Before Clang you have to use LLVM GCC frontend (llvm-gcc) to compile C code under LLVM, which was the default in Xcode until 5.x (although Clang was added in Xcode 4.x, I remembered it being quite unstable at the time). [1]: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2007-July/000000.html https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2007-July/000000.ht... (announcement)