Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Both the original SPARC 64 bit port and the amd64 bit port were started with gcc. Solaris 10's x64 binaries are I thought that in 1996, there was no 64 bit sparc support in GCC. maybe not in the publically available GCC but S

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Both the original SPARC 64 bit port and the amd64 bit port > were started with gcc. Solaris 10's x64 binaries are I thought that in 1996, there was no 64 bit sparc support in GCC. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-18 Thread Martin Bochnig
>>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. >> >> I heavily doubt,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-18 Thread Martin Bochnig
And ON's gcc-shadow compilation does indeed uncover potential bugs, that might not have been detected otherwise. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-18 Thread Martin Bochnig
Martin Bochnig wrote: >Darren J Moffat wrote: > > >>We also now have a fantastic system for building the source with >>multiple compliers. Using multiple different compliers is a great way >>to find "interesting" bugs in the compiler and in the code you are >>building. >> >>Also the Studio comp

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-18 Thread Martin Bochnig
Darren J Moffat wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 dire

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. The rea

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-18 Thread UNIX admin
> Sparc, and x86 are no-brainers. Other platforms??? > > Why would Sun be so keen to pay people to port > Solaris (which has a price tag = FREE) and help HP, > IBM etc to sell their hardware? It would end up being > Sun paying to port the code. HP and IBM selling the > hardware, and HP and IBM get

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Patrick Mauritz
george r smith wrote: My question is why isn't Sun keen in porting Eclipse to Solaris 10 (x86) and help those of us who bought Sun boxes. I know about Netbeans but do a search it is not used nearly as much as Ecliplse. Maybe because Eclipse isn't "pure java" (trademark or not), so the guards

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Bart Smaalders
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 ori

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread george r smith
> > Why would Sun be so keen to pay people to port Solaris (which has a price > tag = FREE) and help HP, IBM etc to sell their hardware? It would end up > being Sun paying to port the code. HP and IBM selling the hardware, and HP > and IBM getting support contracts for maintaining Solaris on HP a

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Doug Scott
> > 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. Sparc, and x86 are no-b

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Casper . Dik
>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. The reasons those engineering

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread UNIX admin
> This sort of polarizing remark isn't exactly useful. > Gcc often > enerates good code, sometimes better that the Studio > compilers, > sometimes worse. On SPARC its track record is more > mixed, but > that's really more of a code generation issue. There > are many > very useful features in gcc