GCC and LLVM collaboration

Sidenote: the GNU Tools Cauldron was a very enjoyable event with many interesting talks. I've summarised many of the ones I attended here: http://llvmweekly.org/issue/29

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If anybody wants to get stuck in to an interesting and meaningful open source project such as gcc/clang, things like the compiler driver (command line parsing+invoking the steps in the compilation process) are accessible to someone who can deal with gnarly code but perhaps isn't a compiler expert, and I think it's fair to see could benefit a lot from careful refactoring and better testing in both GCC and Clang.

The interesting context is here: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2014?action=AttachFile&do=v...

tl;dr: GCC and LLVM are collaborating to make some interfaces the same to make things easier for users.

> People agreed that triples mean nothing and create huge confusion

Does anybody know of alternative proposals to the use of triples to describe compiler targets?