[cfe-dev] Why clang needs to fork into itself?

[Yuri]

On 01/28/2014 14:10, Ted Kremenek wrote:
> The few million users of Clang that I deal with never invoke the compiler directly from the command line.  Most of them probably don’t know how to.  The use the compiler from an IDE.  That can, however, look at a build log and see that a crash report was generated for them, including a shell script that can be provided in a bug report that reruns the compiler with the correct arguments to reproduce the crash.

If they don't know how to run a compiler, how can they possibly know 
know to program anything? Programming is much more complicated and 
involved than simply running a compiler. And you are saying there are 
millions of them?

Yuri