From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 12 19: 9: 6 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 1327B37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:09:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B2E43FB1 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:09:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1D391Rj042807; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:09:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1D37j6X042802; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:07:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:07:45 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: Open Watcom compiler Message-ID: <20030213030745.GA42635@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Terry Lambert , alpha@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar References: <20030211003353.GA12187@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030212084617.GA98667@dragon.nuxi.com> <3E4A137E.72B1DEB0@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E4A137E.72B1DEB0@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 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