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Though i dont know how FreeBSD works after reading the title my first guess was hah, so are they completely switching to clang or some other compiler. But i think maybe if the title read "FreeBSD would stop GCC support" or something would have made it more clear on the outset, may be thats what the he is referring to.

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> so are they completely switching to clang or some other compiler.

Yes, they are -- your understanding was correct. The FreeBSD OS now exclusively builds with clang, and clang is also the compiler shipped with the system.

You can, of course, still install GCC, and many other packages, from the ports tree, but it is no longer part of the OS.

In fact for the vast majority of FreeBSD users (those on i386 or amd64), this happened years ago. Old GCC was kept in the tree for some Tier-2/Tier-3 archs (like MIPS), and is now removed because it's no longer used for those.

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