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you're saying I should port all my code just because the ui is more user-friendly? what about performance, options, special warnings, builtins, and everything else?

I've been using gcc for a while now, and every time I use it I found a new feature. It's rock solid and had never let me down.

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just because the ui is more user-friendly?

Those better warnings aren't just due to a simple UI patch ... clang is doing better and deeper static analysis than gcc in order to even be able to produce those more intelligent warnings.

gcc with the dehydra plugin is doing better and deeper static analysis than clang.

Doesn't dehydra do static analysis for C++ code? In which case, of course it would do better then clang; clang doesn't even claim to have complete c++ support yet.

There is nothing deep about these warnings. It would likely be really, really simple to add them to gcc.

And yet, gcc doesn't have them.

If you think these warnings are evidence that "clang is doing better and deeper static analysis than gcc", then you have no idea how compilers work.

You shouldn't need to port your code; C is C, right?

Or do you use a lot of gcc extensions?

Clang is compatible with the most used GCC extensions. See this: http://clang.llvm.org/features.html#gcccompat

Even better!

wow, just wow. how about read what clang actually is before posting?

Seriously? How can a comment this misguided be upvoted so high?

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