clang

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clang
Design by Chris Lattner and others
Developed by Apple Inc.
Written in C++
OS Unix-like
Platform Cross-platform
Development status in active development
Genre Compiler
License University of Illinois Open Source License [1]
Website clang home

clang is a compiler front end for the C, C++, and Objective-C programming languages. It uses the Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) as its back end. It is still under development; when finished, it will offer a potential replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). It is sponsored by Apple. Its goals include:

  • a layered library design to allow compiler components to be reused in such features as:
  • smaller memory footprint compared to GCC
  • higher compilation speed than GCC
  • command-line compatibility with GCC (for "drop-in" compatibility)

[edit] Current Status

The project is under rapid development. Currently (December 2007), code generation for C and Objective-C is partially complete. Support for C++ and Objective-C++ is still quite incomplete; the project team "[doesn't] expect to have respectable C++ support for another 2 years or so."

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