On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, John Peterson wrote:

> FYI, It looks like we "support" the pathscale compilers...
>
> I recently got access to the new Cray system at NICS (kraken) and
> they've got the pathscale compilers there.  Does anyone know about
> this compiler?  I think it may use GNU on the backend somehow.

Front end.  They're using the "we're not actually linking" loophole in
the GPL: they've got modified (and still open source) GCC frontends to
produce something (bytecode?) that their closed source backends can
then read in and optimize and compile to machine code.
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Roy

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