Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?

My bad. I am running 10.6.8 which seems to be still based on gcc. Is the
parser for the compiler on current Mac OS X now LLVM's code or gcc's front
end?

Edmund

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Sergei Steshenko <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> --- On Tue, 11/13/12, edmund ronald <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: edmund ronald <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 4:42 AM
>
> [snip]
>
> As all Apple software is based on gcc, a personal protest by you against
> Apple's practices would probably be quite effective - how come you aren't
> doing something?  This thread started with worries about restrictive Xcode
> licenses, which essentially translates for us to restrictive gcc licenses.
>
> [snip]
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> "As all Apple software is based on gcc" - where did you take that info
> from ?
>
> LLVM is an _open_ source and _free_ (in FSF sense of the word) software,
> and for more than two years it has been self-hosting:
>
>
> http://java.dzone.com/news/llvms-clang-compiler-achieves :
>
> "
> Self-sufficiency is a major milestone for any compiler technology.  The
> LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) developers were pleased to announce that
> their open source compiler, named Clang, has just reached this milestone.
>  Clang recently completed its first complete self-host by building all of
> the LLVM and itself.
>
> In the testing process, Clang was able to compile over 550,000 lines of
> C++ code, which is the total amount of lines in LLVM and Clang.  The
> resulting binaries passed all of the regression test suites for Clang and
> LLVM.  The self-built Clang was then able to build the 550k lines LLVM and
> Clang code again.  The third Clang build was also fully-functional, which
> made the bootstrap complete.
> ".
>
> Furthermore there are Linux distros are partially based on LLVM already:
> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:12.1 :
>
> "
> openSUSE 12.1 also comes with the just-released LLVM3 compiler tool and
> clang, the C/C++ compiler building upon LLVM. LLVM is employed by the open
> source ATI and NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers and thus forms an
> integral part of a high-performance graphics stack on Linux.
> ".
>
>
> Regards,
>   Sergei.
>
>

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