[cfe-users] Building with Clang (on Windows) - but for Linux

[Csaba Raduly via cfe-users]

Hi John,

On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 10:33, John Emmas via cfe-users
<cfe-users at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> BTW - I often see Clang described as "llvm" or "cfe" and I've often
> wondered what they stand for ??

Folr LLVM : https://lmgtfy.com/?q=LLVM&pp=1

CFE stands for "C Front-End", a C family (C, C++, Objective C/C++,
etc.) language front-end (https://clang.llvm.org/). It's part of the
LLVM project.


Chris Lattner's first email on cfe-dev
(https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2007-July/000000.html)
already calls it "clang", but "cfe" was the component name in
Bugzilla, the mailing list name, and the directory in Subversion (
http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/ ).


Csaba
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