I believe that GCCMVS is an active project.
On 1/31/2012 4:44 PM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Sam Siegel wrote:
Sorry about that. I misspoke, I do not know if anyone or any
organization is porting the gcc suite of tools to z/OS.
No need to be sorry about anything, I am ok :-).
I just did a quick search and found via goog that man named David Pitts
did some port, which is now old stuff and wasn't quite finished when it
was still fresh.
http://www.cozx.com/~dpitts/gcc.html
> From his own words on gcc mailing list, he's got a bit disenchanted and
stopped working on it.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2011-11/msg00072.html
My question about "courts" etc was because I think even if there is any
kind of court in the land of Linux, it is peopled by a bunch of ronins. So
there is no "central authority" that could decide "now we go into z/OS" or
something. On the other hand, I know of no real reason that would prevent
anybody with knowledge of z/OS internals from getting source code and
adding z/OS support to it. The final form would be either fork from
original gcc, like David Pitts apparently did, or a patch sent to mailing
list or to a maintainer, to be included in a base source.
It seems that cpu support is already in newest gcc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#Architectures
I notice they do support VAXen, PDP-11 and 10, and many exotic
architectures - some in core source and some in forks.
So this may be a good starting point, if somebody here has enough
know-how.
BTW, from the formal standpoint, gcc is not connected to Linux, it's just
the compiler of choice. A proper organisation is GNU Project.
Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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