On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Manuel López-Ibáñez <[email protected]> writes: > >> In the same sense that adding clang->gcc means that there is less >> motivation for developers to improve the current C/C++ FEs. > > From the perspective of gcc, I think the goal of clang->gcc would be to > replace the current frontends entirely.
Yes, I think it would be interesting to consider how Clang could evolve into a portable C/C++(/ObjC/ObjC++) front-end that could be used by LLVM and GCC (and other FOSS compilers) -- an alternative to the EDG front-end. - David
