From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 5 15:53:53 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 15:53:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7537137B400 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:53:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA19746; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:53:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB5NpbU67920; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:51:21 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lint Message-ID: <20001205155121.A66239@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200012052124.OAA73236@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bandix@looksharp.net on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:35:01PM -0500 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: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:35:01PM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > It's much faster than gcc and a good deal of work went into making it > retargetable. But there isn't code generators for Alpha and PowerPC (that I know of), and it isn't ISO-C99. Sounds like a good project... hint, hint. > It would be nice to see a competitive, BSD licensed alternative spring > up to keep new ideas flowing. TenDRA fits that and IMHO is a more industrial straight compiler than LCC. BUT as we have seen, no one has picked up TenDRA and moved forward with it. Adding ISO-C99 support would be one thing needed. Retargeting to Alpha, PowerPC, and IA-64 another. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message