Clang

Clang

Posted Oct 25, 2007 3:56 UTC (Thu) by akanaber (subscriber, #23265)
Parent article: A potential competitor for GCC: pcc

Chris Lattner and other LLVM people are working on a C Compiler called Clang (a C/C++/ObjC frontend to go with the LLVM code generator back-end), which looks way more interesting than pcc, to me anyway. It has lots of nice features (good diagnostics as well as being fast, designed to support integration with code-analysis tools) and by using LLVM it already has a good optimiser and lots of target platforms.

(the older way to use LLVM as your compiler is llvm-gcc which lashes the GCC frontends to LLVM by translating representation languages, and so inheirits some of GCC's performance and code complexity)

It's BSD licensed too. There's a good online talk (Clang stuff about 19 min in).

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Wow, Clang is really interesting!

Yeah clang looks very interesting, but i don't think they aim for replacing gcc ... isn't more
about replacing gcc+gcc-output-parser in Xcode?



I might be wrong though...

Most of those claims for CLang are actually promises and goals, since CLang can't actually
generate code yet (at least it couldn't at the time that talk was produced).