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by wolfpld 3241 days ago
> both clang and GCC are viable bases from which you make your internal tooling.

License is not the only factor determining usability of a compiler wrt interfacing with external tools. GCC was deliberately designed to prevent such usage.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NURiiQatBXA at 2:22 for a direct quote from RMS on this topic.