On 11 April 2012 18:24, Xinliang David Li wrote: > > Yes, GCC is still in some comfortable zones such as generated code > quality, performance, etc, but the advantage and gap is quickly > reducing (e.g, LLVM is the default compiler in Xcode) -- and other > advantages in LLVM (will soon) outweigh its disadvantages. It has a > very modern frontend Clang which is *very* attractive to application > developers (better diagnostics, better IDE integration, easier to ...
GCC's diagnostics have got a lot better recently. The http://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html page compares clang's diagnostics to GCC 4.2, which was outdated long before that page was written. It doesn't help GCC's cause when people keep repeating that outdated info :-)
