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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Better corporate support? I might have missed it, but e.g. Intel, Google, ARM, AMD, etc. are still also making significant contributions to GCC.

    Better runtime performance? Have you even read the Phoronix article?

    People using Ada and Fortran using the better compilers out there... Eh... GNU Ada is *the* Ada compiler standard, and GNU Fortran is widely used even in high-performance computing because the commercial compilers aren't really better at all (and generally more buggy).

    Go do your home work.