From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 12 1:25:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D81E837B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:25:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176B543F93 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:25:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1C9PW1o020720 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:25:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@ns1.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1C9PWlW020719 for alpha@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:25:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:25:32 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Open Watcom compiler Message-ID: <20030212092532.GA20618@ns1.xcllnt.net> References: <20030211003353.GA12187@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030212084617.GA98667@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030212084617.GA98667@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:46:17AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:33:53PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > I'm thinking about porting the Open Watcom compiler to FreeBSD. I > > expect the code generator to be better than gcc, but don't know > > yet how it compares to Compaq's compiler. > > Surely the Compaq compiler's optimizer will be better. I don't know. I'd like to see some data on that. > Why waste the > energy porting Open Watcom, rather than fix all the GCC'isms in /sys that > prevent the use of the Compaq compiler? Porting OW will not be a waste of my time. Fixing the gcc'isms will. The former I do out of interest, the latter will only be something I could possibly do because nobody else has an interest in doing it (so far). -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message