On Aug 31, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Sohail Somani wrote:
Apple has begun development of "Clang", which aims to be a high- quality C/C++ parser and compiler. Finally! What guarantees on portability are we expecting? Apple =
Doug Gregor wrote: ppc or x86. I recall that llvm handles multiple targets so perhaps that is my answer.
From the LLVM home page, "[LLVM has] back-ends for the X86, X86-64, PowerPC 32/64, ARM, Thumb, IA-64, Alpha and SPARC architectures, a back-end which emits portable C code, and a Just-In-Time compiler for X86, X86-64, PowerPC 32/64 processors." That's reasonably portable, and of course the more involved the community is in this project, the more likely that Clang will work well on all of these architectures.
Also, what exactly does open source mean here?
It's the LLVM license, which is a BSD-like license. You can check it out here: http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/LICENSE.TXT - Doug