[tools-compilers] gcc vs SunStudio

2010-03-02 Thread Rainer Orth
George Vasick writes: > 3.4.3 is still the official GCC version used for building OpenSolaris. I am > not aware that any testing has been done with 4.3.x yet. Dtrace should > work with 4.3.x but I am not sure about mdb. Extensions were made to gcc > 3.4.3 for the purpose of compiling Solaris, b

[tools-compilers] gcc vs SunStudio

2010-02-09 Thread George Vasick
One potential issue that I do know about is the -msave-args option. It is supported by gcc 3.4.3 but not gcc 4.3.x. In looking through the ON nightly logs, I see that we do use that option in our i386 builds. Thanks, George Alan Coopersmith wrote: > George Vasick wrote: >> Basabi Bhattachary

[tools-compilers] gcc vs SunStudio

2010-02-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
George Vasick wrote: > Basabi Bhattacharya wrote: >> Would like to know if there is any disadvantages in compiling >> application/device drivers with Gcc (4.3.x) and running them on >> OpenSoalris (128a) built with Sunstudio12. I'd assume that all debugging >> tools (mdb and dtrace) should work as

[tools-compilers] gcc vs SunStudio

2010-02-09 Thread George Vasick
Basabi Bhattacharya wrote: > Would like to know if there is any disadvantages in compiling > application/device drivers with Gcc (4.3.x) and running them on > OpenSoalris (128a) built with Sunstudio12. I'd assume that all debugging > tools (mdb and dtrace) should work as expected. I was able to com

[tools-compilers] gcc vs SunStudio

2010-02-05 Thread Basabi Bhattacharya
Would like to know if there is any disadvantages in compiling application/device drivers with Gcc (4.3.x) and running them on OpenSoalris (128a) built with Sunstudio12. I'd assume that all debugging tools (mdb and dtrace) should work as expected. I was able to compile OpenSolaris with Gcc (SUN