Darren J Moffat wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> 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. >> >> >> The reasons those engineering sources were spend was because it was >> not clear that the studio compilers would ever be gratis. > > > We also now have a fantastic system for building the source with > multiple compliers. Using multiple different compliers is a great way > to find "interesting" bugs in the compiler and in the code you are > building. > > Also the Studio compilers are free to use but they are not open source. > > The other huge advantage that being able to build with gcc brings is > when porting to other platforms; using gcc as a cross compiler - which > is something Studio can't do. The PPC port of OpenSolaris wouldn't > have gotten very far if this wasn't possible. >
Absolutely, finally! DISCLAIMER: I do like gcc (and I refuse to apologize for this). _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
