On 1/25/06, Joerg Schilling <schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
Yeah, but where would you run it ? On Solaris 2.5.1/PPC ?
>
> 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.
>
As far as I know nobody was talking about getting workshop/ppc sources.
And even if we (hypothetically) will have it - it is some very old
release of workshop,
so many modern C features wouldn't be supported, IMHO.
> Is there any feedback from the GCC folks?
Nope.
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Regards,
Cyril
