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		ZeroGravitas on June 30, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise I was under the impression that they wanted to use llvm in their proprietary IDE (amongst other proprietary apps) which would rule out GCC for purely licensing reasons.

jonhohle on June 30, 2010 [–]

Xcode is already (and has always been) a wrapper around gcc/gdb. Clang provides a cleaner interface for integrating with an IDE (among a lot of other things).

koenigdavidmj on June 30, 2010 | [–]

Yes. In addition, LLVM provides a much nicer interface to get symbol tables and things like that---another boon to Xcode.

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