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On Sunday, 20 May 2018 14:00:29 UTC+1, Brian Drummond  wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2018 08:04:00 -0700, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 8:04:12 AM UTC-5, Brian Drummond wrote:
> 
> >> It would be nice to have a clean separation of sources, generated
> >> sources, and object files, but...
> >> 
> >> -- Brian
> > 
> > Luke & Simon & anyone else, do you concur?  Is this your experience?
> > 
> > If so, then I think we have arrived at the A#1 internal-technical reason
> > why Apple et al pulled out of GCC ...
> 
> Don't know for sure, but as I posted previously, I suspect it's the main 
> obstacle even to something much simpler like porting Gnat Libre (gcc-x.y) 
> bugfixes to FSF Gnat (gcc-z.w) versions.


It's publicly available, somewhere, but Apple wanted more control over the source and they wanted to be able to incorporate the compiler within xcode, which they couldn't do with GCC.