From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:12:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix some clang warnings
Message-ID: <vpqr4llhua3.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20130116175057.GB27525@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> It seems a little weird to me that clang defines __GNUC__, but I
> assume there are good reasons for it.

The reason is essentially that clang targets compatibility with GCC
(implementing the same extensions & cie), in the sense "drop in
replacement that should be able to compile legacy code possibly relying
on __GNUC__ and GCC extensions."

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/