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jonhohle on June 30, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise

Xcode is already (and has always been) a wrapper around gcc/gdb. Clang provides a cleaner interface for integrating with an IDE (among a lot of other things).

koenigdavidmj on June 30, 2010 [–]

Yes. In addition, LLVM provides a much nicer interface to get symbol tables and things like that---another boon to Xcode.

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