From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 17 06:13:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA10603 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 06:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au [130.194.166.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA10596 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 06:12:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au) Received: from localhost (graeme@localhost) by babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA03424; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:11:36 +1000 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:11:36 +1000 (EST) From: Graeme Cross Reply-To: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au To: Joerg Wunsch cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good compilers [Was: FreeBSD for Operating Systems Course] In-Reply-To: <19971017090735.BI02497@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: X-Attribution: gjc X-No-Archive: yes X-No-Junk-Mail: Do not send me junk mail under any circumstances X-PGP-Key-ID: 702DB549 X-URI: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Graeme Cross wrote: > > > I am aware of high quality Fortran, Ada and Eiffel products that are > > commercially available for Linux, as well as free implementations of all of > > the above. > > Just curious: are there any commercial high-quality C++ compilers for > free operating systems? A customer of us is doing C++ development, > right now mostly on Sparcs, since g++ is just too far off from the > standard. They would happily move out part of their development to > freeware systems if a good compilere were available. > There is Comeau C++ (http://www.comeaucomputing.com/) I haven't used it, but have heard good reports of it. Not sure if there is a FreeBSD version, but there is a Linux version. Cheers Graeme - -- Graeme Cross Water Studies Centre, Monash University http://www.wsc.monash.edu.au/~graeme/ Random thought #103 My mail reader can beat up your mail reader. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: Auto-signed by PPG (v1.01) (the PGP/PINE gateway) iQB1AwUBNEdkA2AiycRwLbVJAQFuxQMAkwT6YFnmMIXnJTPdgwAtl5JcSF8zVTZb S8Z9Tlf+dgL1pff0EDGBQFLnTOZNUN8de7Fp19m9T2YZhhUC3eTV/xbzNZLZhQLW TriFeUzqwufNjsIL/DYNo2BLegXUhz4C =srAq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----