Has GCC really been removed from r18?

[juha-h]

Changelog r18 https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/wiki/Changelog-r18 tells that "GCC has been removed". I just downloaded r18 and it still has ./toolchains/aarch64-linux-android-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/lib/gcc. What does the changelog entry really mean?

[DanAlbert]

Exactly what it says. GCC of not a part of the NDK.

[enh]

but note that there are still gcc and g++ wrapper scripts which redirect to clang, plus we still use GNU binutils which means a few hard-coded gccs in paths (like this one for the directory where stuff like crtbegin.o lives).

so, yeah, GCC itself is gone, but the word 'gcc' might still be around for a while yet.

[juha-h]

Elliott Hughes writes:

but note that there are still `gcc` and `g++` wrapper scripts which redirect to clang, plus we still use GNU binutils which means a few hard-coded `gcc`s in paths (like this one for the directory where stuff like `crtbegin.o` lives). so, yeah, GCC itself is gone, but the _word_ 'gcc' might still be around for a while yet.

Thanks for the explanation,