Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ?
> I am not sure how useful WorkShop/PPC would be for us.
I believe that it would be at least nice to have as the main advantage of the
Sun compiler is error/warning handling.
Of course, it is forseeable that the GCC created code will be faster,
but optimizing the Sun compiler is something that could be done later.
> Think about it - it is native kit. And it is little endian.
I did not yet check the PPC CPU handbook, but it should not be that much
work to change the compiler to become big endian.
Also note that once you have the source for the compiler, you could create a
cross variant.
> It can only run on little endian environment and can only
> create little endian bins (although I am not entirely sure on
> the latter).
So you think about trying to get the binary version?
This of course does not really make sense.
> 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.
Is there any feedback from the GCC folks?
J?rg
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