On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
Proof? A similar page from gcc would be more helpful here. > 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 diagnostics to GCC 4.2, which was outdated long before that page was 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 It doesn't help GCC's cause when people keep repeating that outdated info :-) Well -- because there is no up-to-date information for people to look at :(. David
