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| author | Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> | 2014-04-27 15:02:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> | 2014-04-27 15:02:05 +0000 |
| commit | bb92cf2f73893e60903c446abfc0f6a51332bfbf (patch) | |
| tree | f58abd526a5efb8799912e8d8d634ae15cf54036 | |
| parent | ef3627f2747c856f990f9bbf258ea2874bb2737c (diff) | |
| download | clang_35a-bb92cf2f73893e60903c446abfc0f6a51332bfbf.tar.gz | |
Remove no longer relevant information in the gcc/llvm comparison page + minor updates
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@207361 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
| -rw-r--r-- | www/comparison.html | 11 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/www/comparison.html b/www/comparison.html index 40a0d001b2..e76a07b683 100644 --- a/www/comparison.html +++ b/www/comparison.html @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ analysis, you may not care that something lacks codegen support, for example.</p> - <p>Please email cfe-dev if you think we should add another compiler to this + <p>Please email <a href="get_involved.html">cfe-dev</a> if you think we should add another compiler to this list or if you think some characterization is unfair here.</p> <ul> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ <ul> <li>GCC supports languages that clang does not aim to, such as Java, Ada, - FORTRAN, etc.</li> + FORTRAN, Go, etc.</li> <li>GCC supports more targets than LLVM.</li> <li>GCC supports many language extensions, some of which are not implemented by Clang. For instance, in C mode, GCC supports @@ -82,13 +82,6 @@ custom garbage collector, uses global variables extensively, is not reentrant or multi-threadable, etc. Clang has none of these problems. </li> - <li>For every token, clang tracks information about where it was written and - where it was ultimately expanded into if it was involved in a macro. - GCC does not track information about macro instantiations when parsing - source code. This makes it very difficult for source rewriting tools - (e.g. for refactoring) to work in the presence of (even simple) - macros. This appears to be partially or fully addressed in recent - releases of GCC.</li> <li>Clang does not implicitly simplify code as it parses it like GCC does. Doing so causes many problems for source analysis tools: as one simple example, if you write "x-x" in your source code, the GCC AST will |