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GCC front-ends

Posted Jan 2, 2025 17:12 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: GCC front-ends by ceplm
Parent article: An Algol 68 front end for GCC

> The only reason for Apple’s switch to LLVM then ...

https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/04/11/2012-apples-great...

It's far beyond GCC.

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GCC front-ends

Posted Jan 2, 2025 17:21 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

The GPLv2 has a political agenda but it's still just a "pure" software licence. Legal departments are not fans but they've learned to live with it.

The GPL v3 elevated the agenda much higher and reaches beyond software itself. Legal departments generally hate it. Unlike v2, it's been pretty much banned all across Apple products, see reference above.

Whether you agree with the political agenda or not is irrelevant, I'm just sticking to facts here.