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

[Sidney Markowitz]

David Reitter wrote, On 26/9/09 11:37 AM:
> 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...

That's true ... We have a working gcc on our machines, so it is not a 
big deal if a new version of gcc that we never get doesn't support those 
machines. It is more of a concern if 10.7 arrives without a gcc that 
supports it and there are programs that cannot be built using whatever 
compiler does come with it. And that's more of a concern to people who 
use Fortran. I'm sure that 10.7 will not arrive without any support for C++.

I haven't been following the issues about LLVM and clang, or even yet 
understand the difference. This post from an Apple dev seems to indicate 
well what is going on with it:

  http://lists.apple.com/archives/xcode-users/2009/Sep/msg00272.html

It looks like the right thing to do is confirm that Aquamacs builds with 
llvm-clang and keep checking that it does so we are ready if gcc for 
Darwin does go away some day.