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eru on Aug 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCC switches from C to C++

But isn't LLVM written in C++, too?

Ralith on Aug 15, 2012 | [–]

But if GCC is now C++ as well, then it removes what may have been the motivating characteristic to use it, when clang is for many purposes an otherwise better, more freely licensed, compiler.

kingmanaz on Aug 15, 2012 | [–]

Thanks, I did not know that.

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