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LLVM 3.5 Brings C++1y Improvements, Unified 64-bit ARM Backend

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: LLVM 3.5 along with Clang 3.5 are now available for download. LLVM 3.5 offers many compiler advancements including a unified 64-bit ARM back-end from the merging of the Apple and community AArch64 back-ends, C++1y/C++1z language additions, self-hosting support of Clang on SPARC64, and various other compiler improvements.

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  1. Is there any point continuing GCC's development? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    rarely-used languages and platforms

    Rarely-used platforms? Tell that to all the people developing for various embedded platforms like AVR which LLVM doesn't support. Those aren't rarely used.

  2. Re:Is there any point continuing GCC's development by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 4, Insightful

    GCC's support for Fortran and Ada make it valuable, the point is the need for an open source compiler so when your requirement is open source a commercial compiler wont do. Many assiduously avoid closed source software and want to be able to have the facility for ada and fortran. Many "infrequently used" platforms are more important than you think, such as the system Z platform from IBM.