Hi all, you might know that since ~ 2 years, the Sun Studio compilers are available for Linux. Given the fact that they typically produce faster code than GCC and that they offer more debug/optimizing features, they are worth testing.
While it is no problem to use Sun Studio for non-Linux-specific programs, it is impossible to compile programs using Sun Studio if these programs offer Linux specific features. Star ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/ offers support for archiving ext2 file flags. If star is compiled using Sun Studio, star's autoconfiguration will disable support for the Linux specific features because it detects "broken" include files. Cdrtools ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ offer support for an OS dependent SCSI transport. Cdrtools cannot be compiled wihout support for SCSI transport, so it is impossible to use Sun Studio to compile cdrtools. Why does this happen? Well, the reason is that in order to support Linux specific features, you need to include Linux specific include files (the Linux kernel include files). As these include files are currently not written in vanilla (ANSI) C but in a GCC-C-variant, other compilers do not like these include files. Is there some hope that at least the Linux kernel interface definition files and everything recursively included from these files will be rewritten in vanilla ANSI C? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/