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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:47:10 -0500
From: Ryan Johnson <ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca>
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On 11/01/2013 6:41 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Yaakov wrote:
>
>> Forking an entire compiler within a
>> source package just for building that package?
>
> I think ROOT guys have good reasons to have a patched version of CLANG 
> if the new ROOT C++ interpreter they implement is called "cling"...
>
> You can read more here: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling
OT: if I understand right, they're not patching/forking Clang to make it 
a better compiler. They're essentially wrapping Clang with their own 
code to provide reflection and an interactive command-line interpreter 
for C++. That they can do it with ~7kLoC is pretty impressive.

Ryan


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