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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:47:27 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: Open Watcom compiler
Message-ID:  <3E4B154F.1AF998DA@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030211003353.GA12187@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030212084617.GA98667@dragon.nuxi.com> <3E4A137E.72B1DEB0@mindspring.com> <20030213030745.GA42635@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien wrote:
> > 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?

This one is closer to the feature set that's needed for compiling
FreeBSD self-hosted, and the source code's available?

Someone's willing to fill in the missing pieces of the compiler?

-- Terry

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