I was searching online to see if clang supported reproducible builds. I read that GCC guaranteed reproducible builds using the -frandom-seed flag. I wanted to know if clang supports that flag and I could not find anything regarding that.I then came here which had a statement such as:
...two consecutive builds of (GCC-built) Clang
My question is what is GCC built clang ? I am currently aware of only 2 compilers (Microsoft , GCC (Coudl be Cygwin/Mingw flavor) ) and the third one was suppose to be clang. My question is what does clang (GCC built) mean ? Built from source ? I would like to think that clang is a totally different compiler from GCC and Windows. Also this documentation here states
Clang has experimental support for targeting “Cygming” (Cygwin / MinGW) platforms.
What does that mean ? Does clang mean that it uses Mingw GCC as a compiler ? What does targeting mean here ?
To my mind, this phrase means clang was built from source using GCC as a compiler. Then, clang is a compiler, so it can't use GCC as a compiler.
Compilers are written in programming languages to be able to compile code written in a programming language. This means, a compiler can compile a compiler or even itself.
If you don't know is feature X supported in product Y, please, read the docs on product Y. If this feature isn't mentioned, it's not supported and vice versa.