Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM?

bash_bob

So I was surfing the net and stumbled upon this article . It basically states that FreeBSD , starting from Version 10 and above will deprecate GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM . From what I have seen around the net so far, Clang/LLVM is a fairly ambitious project, but in terms of reliability it can not match GCC . Are there any technical reasons FreeBSD...

Originally asked by NlightNFotis on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Good FreeBSD question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Summary: The primary reason for switching from GCC to Clang is the incompatibility of GCC's GPL v3 license with the goals of the FreeBSD project . There are also political issues to do with corporate investment, as well as user base requirements. Finally, there are expected technical advantages to do with standards compliance and ease of debugging. Real world performance improvements in compilation and execution are code-specific and debatable; cases can be made for both compilers. FreeBSD and the GPL: FreeBSD has an uneasy relationship with the GPL. BSD-license advocates believe that truly...

Full answer by ire_and_curses: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/49970 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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