Apple has a history with gcc.
Apple has a history with gcc.
Posted Feb 23, 2015 5:45 UTC (Mon) by magila (guest, #49627)In reply to: Apple has a history with gcc. by Cyberax
Parent article: Emacs and LLDB
ARM's proprietary compilers are most certainly not dead. A lot of embedded firmware uses them because they generate smaller code than gcc or llvm which is critical for devices with very small amounts of memory (yes, they still exist).
Posted Feb 23, 2015 6:00 UTC (Mon)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Posted Feb 23, 2015 6:41 UTC (Mon)
by magila (guest, #49627)
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Apple has a history with gcc.
Do they use LLVM+clang as their base?
Apple has a history with gcc.
Yes, as of version 6 ARM's compiler suite is based on llvm.