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Most of the benefits here seem to come from being able to use llvm, especially for static analysis; you could do this stuff, still ship binaries from GCC, and come out ahead.



In regular applications, most (serious) companies I’ve worked for used a combo of clang, GCC, and/or MSVC to have the largest list of warnings and bugs.


Companies serious about static analysis end up additionally using Sonar, PVS Studio, Insure++, among others, not plain llvm.




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