On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Alexey Starovoytov wrote:
Hi,
In some sense this project is a supplement project to "support GCCfss and gcc 4 in
ON" project, but can be considered separately.
Alexey,
Are you proposing separate or shared project space for your two
proposals?
Eric
GCCfss (GCC for SPARC Systems) is a big step forward on sparc comparing to
/usr/sfw/bin/gcc.
Higher performance, higher reliability, internally supported.
GCCfss 4.0.2 was released in March. GCCfss 4.0.3 is about to be released.
The first idea was to propose plain gcc 4 for x86 side, but gcc needs few extra
features to build ON, so it can't be plain gcc4. Yet another gcc branch with
Solaris required features may be too costly.
GCCfss contains all these extras already. For sparc and for x86 it can be made
to be built from the same source tree. It will use Sun Studio backend on sparc
and plain gcc backend on x86. GCCfss is sort of gcc plugin that allows gcc
front-end to use Sun Studio backend. If plugin is off, vanilla RTL backend is
called.
Anyway it doesn't have to be decided right now. If ON community wants plain gcc
4 for x86 integrated in SFW, we can try to make it happen.
Alexey.
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