LLVM 7.0 RC3 Released - The Last Release Candidate

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM 7.0 RC3 Released - The Last Release Candidate

While only two release candidates were on the schedule for LLVM 7.0, release manager Hans Wennborg today opted for a third RC that he intends to be the final test version before officially releasing the LLVM 7.0.0 collection...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-7.0-RC3-Released

[cl333r]

Ubuntu 18.10 ships with 7 by default:

$clang --version
clang version 7.0.0-+rc2-1~exp3 (tags/RELEASE_700/rc2)
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

[armetuz]

And clang still lack some great features like 'scalar_storage_order' struct attribute that GCC developers implemented years ago.

[Guest]

I just finishing updating.

 clang --version
clang version 7.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_700/rc3)
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

[wizard69]

And clang still lack some great features like 'scalar_storage_order' struct attribute that GCC developers implemented years ago.

On the flip side LLVM/CLang has a great set of tools that have not been matched on the GCC side.

Beyond that it does little good to whine like a child about what one suite implements that the other doesnt. Lets face it the feature sets where exact matches there would be little point in having the two projects. Well beyond the need to escape the hideous GPL3 license. We should all be thankful that a bit of friendly competition is driving compiler innovation.