GCC Has A Call For Help To Improve Diagnostics

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC Has A Call For Help To Improve Diagnostics

While GCC's diagnostics capabilities have improved in the late GCC 4.x releases along with bug-fixes, there's a call for help to further improve the important open-source compiler...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgwNTA

[Yorgos]

such photoshop

[sajmon5544]

such photoshop

Proof that Photoshop can indeed be replaced by GIMP

[caligula]

Isn't LLVM the cool new kind in the block? Why would anyone care about GCC?

[jagoly]

Isn't LLVM the cool new kind in the block? Why would anyone care about GCC?

A lot of people do think that, hence all the recent improvements to GCC as a counter-action.

[wikinevick]

They are probably not all that desperate ...

A lot of people do think that, hence all the recent improvements to GCC as a counter-action.

Indeed competition has been the best that could happen to GCC. Before clang, development was a huge inertia with companies like Apple pushing their own agenda and the maintainers trying to block them, now they have to try to cope against a superior design and they will receive contributions from anyone.

Very sadly contributing to GCC is not easy: the code is an unmanageable mess and you have to sign paperwork to get your contribution considered. And then there's the grumpy man with the political agenda. Huge spendage of time and energy, clang is the future.

[pal666]

now they have to try to cope against a superior design

the most superior aspect of clang compared to gcc is not design, but implementation language. which is slowly changing