[Aquamacs-devel] future gcc releases on OS X -- they may be going away

[David Reitter]

On Sep 25, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Sidney Markowitz wrote:
> I guess it isn't off topic if it means that we soon will have to  
> make sure that emacs and Aquamancs can be built using llvm/clang

Yes, it's be nice to see it compiled with clang.  It might even be a  
bit faster.  Give it a shot if you have time.

Emacs 22 and also the 23/Appkit port compile with clang thanks to a  
few small changes already... See Yamamoto Mitsuharu's e-mail on emacs- 
devel (Sep 8 2009).

That said... some gcc people saying that Mac/Intel64 is becoming a  
secondary platform in terms of their support doesn't mean that gcc 4.2  
as deployed with every DevTools install world-wide is magically going  
to stop working...  Apple has been maintaining their fork of gcc  
(which is reasonably far away from the mainstream, actually) and  
they're going to keep using it, or, as you suggest, switch to clang.   
iPhone apps are already compiled with clang.

What was and is causing big pain has been the switch to 10.6, though.   
Different story.

- D


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