From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 12 1:28:52 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 306E837B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:28:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC7F743F3F for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0043.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.43] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18itCD-00053I-00; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:28:50 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4A137E.72B1DEB0@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:27:26 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Cc: Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: Open Watcom compiler References: <20030211003353.GA12187@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030212084617.GA98667@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a421b483a1c6c2039d24683f1a46e12f49667c3043c0873f7e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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 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. Why waste the > energy porting Open Watcom, rather than fix all the GCC'isms in /sys that > prevent the use of the Compaq compiler? Won't porting to the Open Watcom compiler result in the same things being fixed, with the additional advantage that the compiler can be made native for FreeBSD, rather than running under Linux emulation, and it can target multiple platforms, not just Alpha? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message