[cfe-dev] Difference between clang and clang++

NAKAMURA Takumi geek4civic at gmail.com
Tue May 31 15:09:54 PDT 2011


2011/5/30 John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com>:
> I don't know why (or whether) these files are independent on disk;  on Unix-y platforms, clang++ is just a symlink.

If we had "the big clang.dll (like --shared llvm.dll, not only C
API)", we could obtain smaller clang.exe and clang++.exe. Of course
they may be identical.

I love monolithic clang!

ps. Note that, gcc has its big cc1.exe and cc1plus.exe (and other
backends) in most platforms.

...Takumi




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