[M3devel] gcc vs. clang as back-end

[Michael Richter]

I've just read Jay K's long message about problems integrating with gcc 4.5.
 The LLVM project has clang out now which is ready for prime time as a C or
Objective-C compiler (not yet there for C++, but that's out of scope for CM3
I'd guess).  Since clang was specifically designed, as one of its goals, to
be easy to use as a form of library, would it not perhaps be better to start
using clang as a back-end instead of any version of gcc (which is
notoriously difficult to write front-ends, back-ends or tools for)?

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