Shawn Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen Lau wrote: > > You do a disservice by dismissing anyone who may know about Sun Studio > > as either lacking skill or being lazy. There are plenty of developers > > who have written software on other platforms (OS X, Linux, etc.) who > > have written perfectly good software with gcc-isms, and have users (like > > us) appealing to them to port it over to Solaris. Having not-up-to-date > > matching compilers only makes Solaris look bad, and gives the developers > > an excuse for not porting their software. > > I have to agree with Stephen. While I don't believe developers should > use gccisms (because I think portability and adhering to language > standards is more important), sometimes there is no viable alternative > or you are targeting a specific platform and it doesn't matter.
This is (as mentioned before) writing in "C" as opposed to writing in "GCC". > I also believe Sun Studio to be a better compiler, in general, and > that's after using gcc since 1993 or 1994... Sun Studio definitely is better suited to write portable code than doing the same with gcc and the include file structure on Solaris (being POSIX approved) is another important fact I rely on when writing highly portable code. > Regardless, as long as Sun Studio remains closed, it is important that > the OpenSolaris community provide a viable, up-to-date, open source > option as much as possible. I have been told that the code review has already been finished more than a year ago. I am still in hope to see it as OSS. 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/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
