[cfe-dev] Query: Is clang an "Apple product"?

Reid Kleckner rnk at google.com
Thu Oct 2 11:12:57 PDT 2014


On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Robinson, Paul <
Paul_Robinson at playstation.sony.com> wrote:

> In the interest of pedantic hair-splitting:
>
> Apple delivers a version of clang (as part of Xcode?) and it's not unheard
> of for a vendor to include proprietary changes (I don't know whether Apple
> does this).  In that sense the clang-that-Apple-delivers could be
> reasonably
> considered an "Apple product."
>
> However, clang-in-general is not an "Apple product."
>

I agree, and I think this is an important distinction.

The Clang binaries that ship as part of XCode are Apple products supported
by Apple, but the open source releases are a product of the LLVM community.
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