Re: life ?
  By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Mon Mar 02 2020 04:33 pm

 > Hallo Rob!
 >
 >  RS> You're saying Java doesn't have a foreseeable future?
 >
 > Yes I am.  Mind you I am not counting so-called smart devices.  Mind you
 > I've never seen nor heard of a development enviroment (compiler and friends)
 > that runs within an OS on a so-called smart device.

I'm not sure what constitutes a "smart device" - but in any case, I'm pretty 
sure Java has a foreseeable future. I'd bet the farm that it'll out live you 
and me!

 >  RS> You seem to be saying that that llvm (clang) requires gcc?
 >
 > It required something to get it kickstarted.  In my case it is/was gcc.

What does that mean? If you're building clang from source, then yes, you'd need 
a compiler to do that. But most folks just install a binary package for clang 
for their OS of choice and use that - no other compiler (gcc or otherwise) 
needed.

 > At
 > this point in time the resulting clang cannot successfully compile glibc

And I wonder why you'd want to.

 > but
 > there looks to be some hope for llvm-10 as a possible contender to build a
 > complete linux-gnu which is what the original claim was and that it is
 > currently available via the mandriva distribution.  So far I haven't seen
 > any real evidence that this is true and the llvm-9.0.1 (latest and greatest)
 > falls far short of creating it's own bootable enviroment independent of gcc.

Got something against gcc?

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