On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Sam Siegel wrote: > >> Sorry about that. I misspoke, I do not know if anyone or any >> organization is porting the gcc suite of tools to z/OS. > > No need to be sorry about anything, I am ok :-). > > I just did a quick search and found via goog that man named David Pitts > did some port, which is now old stuff and wasn't quite finished when it > was still fresh. > > http://www.cozx.com/~dpitts/gcc.html > > From his own words on gcc mailing list, he's got a bit disenchanted and > stopped working on it. > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2011-11/msg00072.html > > My question about "courts" etc was because I think even if there is any > kind of court in the land of Linux, it is peopled by a bunch of ronins. So > there is no "central authority" that could decide "now we go into z/OS" or > something. On the other hand, I know of no real reason that would prevent > anybody with knowledge of z/OS internals from getting source code and > adding z/OS support to it. The final form would be either fork from > original gcc, like David Pitts apparently did, or a patch sent to mailing > list or to a maintainer, to be included in a base source.
With respect to courts, I was talking only in the most general size. Private company (ibm, etc.) versus independent and non-affiliated developers. My thinking is that because of the lack of availability of low cost zSeries HW and z/OS very few independant developers will directly any application/utility development towards z/OS. > > It seems that cpu support is already in newest gcc: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#Architectures > > I notice they do support VAXen, PDP-11 and 10, and many exotic > architectures - some in core source and some in forks. > > So this may be a good starting point, if somebody here has enough > know-how. > > BTW, from the formal standpoint, gcc is not connected to Linux, it's just > the compiler of choice. A proper organisation is GNU Project. gcc certainly does stand separate from Linux. Here is a link to IBM's contribution to GCC: http://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/info/news_ibm_gcc.html > > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
