From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 12 19:48:53 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 5C06B37B401; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF2F43F3F; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:48:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0418.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.163] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18jAMj-0003vt-00; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:48:50 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4B154F.1AF998DA@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:47:27 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: Open Watcom compiler References: <20030211003353.GA12187@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030212084617.GA98667@dragon.nuxi.com> <3E4A137E.72B1DEB0@mindspring.com> <20030213030745.GA42635@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4ee35f20eada5050dba7efd931636b0de667c3043c0873f7e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message