On 1/24/06, Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think that we would do well if we had the Sun WorkShop Compilers
> tools for the Solaris 2.5.1 PPC release also. Since we have gone
> through the trouble and time to actually get the required hardware and
> scoured the earth for a copy of the OS also. How tough can it be to
> drag out a CDROM from a dust bin somewhere ?
Dennis,
I am not sure how useful WorkShop/PPC would be for us.
Think about it - it is native kit. And it is little endian.
It can only run on little endian environment and can only
create little endian bins (although I am not entirely sure on
the latter).
What we need now is a cross kit. Only when we'll get to
self-hosting Polaris we would need a native kit. And even
then big endian executables would be required, not
little endian.
GCC really looks like a good choice, provided that
a). GCC compilability of ON will be finished and integrated
b). GCC support for powerpc-*-solaris2 will be done.
I think that GCC is very reasonable approach for us.
Having any other (less known/available) kit as a requirement
for the project is a bad thing, IMHO.
When we reach some stabilization and more or less working
system we may discuss again the advantage/drawbacks
of having any other compiler kit.
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Regards,
Cyril
