On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> GCC has a big community of very dedicated people. LLVM has no such >> community. So IMHO GCC will be more high quality compiler than LLVM until >> LLVM gets such community. >> > > That can't be expected to continue now that there are many employers > hiring people and forbidding them from working on GCC, even in their > own time, while permitting them to work on LLVM. > > I'm not just spreading sour news for the sake of it, here is an > example of where I ran into this impeding a GCC crash bug: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50335#c8 > > (Though it will be quite ironic when LLVM becomes unusable to everyone > because the "we don't give up our patent rights for this when we > contribute to it" turns it into a thicket) > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel In addition, FreeBSD is working to ensure that the base system can be compiled without gcc so that will add to the community. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
