Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 21:20:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: eivind@yes.no, rnordier@nordier.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning Message-ID: <199805292120.OAA14978@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199805282015.PAA01671@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at May 28, 98 03:15:44 pm
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> > Well, here are a couple of points: > > * License > > I'll assume that TenDRA and XANDF are both BSD-license? Yes. > > * General quality of system (GCC is written under the paradigm 'learn > > writing compilers as we go') > > I can't comment on that one, not having examined the source code to > the various compilers. But are the others written by professional > compiler writers? Yes. Under denfense contract. > > * Possibilities for exploiting the cross-CPU nature of XANDF > > How are XANDF's cross-cpu capabilities more powerful than gcc's? You can distribute "binaries" and localize them to an architecture at install time. This means you can distribute commercial code that will run on x86, Alpha, MIPS, PPC, 68k, VAX, SPARC, etc., etc.. For FreeBSD, this means one "ports" CDROM will work for all future architectures. It also means that one "ports" CDROM will work for FreeBSD 3.x and FreeBSD 235.x. > > * Better error checking/control > > How do you mean? Full mapping of the error checking and warning space. GCC only maps the parts that they thought were important, and then it's done pretty haphazardly. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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