> > Perhaps engineering resources that went into making > OpenSolaris GCC-friendly would have been better spent > porting SS10 to other platforms? Were I the manager > that had the power to decide, I would have certainly > pushed in that direction, not the other way around.
Sparc, and x86 are no-brainers. Other platforms??? Why would Sun be so keen to pay people to port Solaris (which has a price tag = FREE) and help HP, IBM etc to sell their hardware? It would end up being Sun paying to port the code. HP and IBM selling the hardware, and HP and IBM getting support contracts for maintaining Solaris on HP and IBM hardware. x86 on the other hand is different as Sun now has some very nice x86 hardware which has the potential to lure support contracts back towards Sun. Although gcc most of the time produces slower code than other compilers, including Sun's. It does have the benefit, that most C code is written to it's features (and bugs). This means that sometimes you have to bite the bullet and put up with the possibility that it might be slightly slower, but atleast the application compiles and runs. g++ on the other hand is just pure puss!!! It should have been strangled at birth :) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
