Apple-employed maintainers (was Re: Apple, iPhone, and GPLv3 troubles)

[Duncan Sands]

> > However if GPLv3 is such a huge issue
> > at Apple, it does make one wonder if llvm will ever see a gcc front-end newer
> > than the current 4.2 one.
> 
> The LLVM folks are writing a new frontend anyhow.  In the future they
> presumably plan to stop using the gcc frontend.  gcc's code is so
> tangled anyhow, it's not like using the gcc frontend somehow makes
> LLVM compile code the same way gcc does.

I'm quite interested in porting llvm-gcc to gcc head, in order to
get better Ada support.  Apple isn't planning Ada support in their
new compiler (clang) as far as I know :)

Duncan.

PS: I have no connection with Apple.