Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:07:45 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Open Watcom compiler Message-ID: <20030213030745.GA42635@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3E4A137E.72B1DEB0@mindspring.com> References: <20030211003353.GA12187@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030212084617.GA98667@dragon.nuxi.com> <3E4A137E.72B1DEB0@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:27:26AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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? *shrug* We've had alternate compilers for a long time -- TenDRA, Compaq Alpha compiler, Intel C compiler. Yet no one has ever removed the GCC'isms. What is so special about the existance of yet another alternate compiler? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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