Talk:GSoC - Windows Support

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Have we really settled on Minwg64/GCC as a compiler? The other day I followed a discussion (non-Eiffel related) about the relative merit of GCC vs. CLANG/LLVM. The tenure was that CLANG is much better at doing static code analysis to catch errors. Optimisations were slightly better too, but this I personally find less significant. If a CLANG compile pass would show us that the Liberty C-code generator can be improved, that would be a valuable asset. Example from the past: my experiments with Pelles-C, which showed that "C code for local variables are still generated, even though all accesses to them are removed", see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42991 This Windows-port project could possibly improve the base product. Then again, CLANG (and other static verification tools) could be used already on Linux as is, so strictly speaking, we wouldn't really need the Windows-port project for that.

What do you think?

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