UNIX admin wrote:
Perhaps engineering resources that went into making OpenSolaris GCC-friendly would have been better spent porting SS10 to other platforms? Were I the manager that had the power to decide, I would have certainly pushed in that direction, not the other way around.
Both the original SPARC 64 bit port and the amd64 bit port were started with gcc. Solaris 10's x64 binaries are all compiled with the bundled gcc, as the Studio compilers weren't product quality soon enough during development. Being able to compile with gcc means that someone can much more readily port to another architectures, such as PPC or strongarm or ... - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
