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Re: [G95-develop] Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under
Tobias Schlueter <Tobias.Schlueter@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE> writes:
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> > There are more people asking me to try to convince SGI to assign
> > copyright to the FSF.
> >
> > I know very little about what SGI has released. Does it have any
> > connection with GCC, or is it a totally independent compiler?
> >
>
> Much more important than the compiler (there is no realistic way
> to combine it with the gcc backend, it uses its own internal represantion
> WHIRL, not RTL) is their _library_. It would be a major benefit having a
Actually there is. They include a Whirl_to_C backend. So you could
probably do a F95toC without too much work and compile the C output
with gcc (it also includes a Whirl_to_Fortran backend, but i don't
know how much it supports).
-Andi