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Re: How to work with other compilers (e. g.: Borland Turbo or Builder, DigitalMars, DJGPP, OpenWatco [message #10686 is a reply to message #10680]

Sun, 22 July 2007 09:19

waxblood
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Registered: January 2007

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luzr wrote:

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There are no other C++ compilers on linux or Mac OS X.

?????

Waht about LLVM http://llvm.org/? Seems very promising to me. It has a number of nice features:

-written in C++, heavy use of STL (it's always better than no templates at all Rolling Eyes

)
-As the name suggests, it can work as a Virtual Machine on produced RISC-like virtual code (it's the equivalent of GCC RTL)
-offers support to run-time and off-line optimizations based on code profiling
-there's a lot of documentation
-currently builds large projects such as mozilla and Qt
-Is sponsored by Apple
-its licence is bsd-like

drawbacks:
-currently uses GCC as Front End to parse C and C++ files. translating results into LLVM assembly.
-as a consequence of previous point, LLVM front end licence is the the same as gcc (GPL)

good news:
a fast new C front-end is under-way.. It is quite complete, C++ and ObjC support will follow (but time is needed, of course)
look at
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2007-July/009817. html

Ciao,
David

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