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Re: SGI discontinues Pro64 development
- To: Jason Lee Eckhardt <jle at owlnet dot rice dot edu>
- Subject: Re: SGI discontinues Pro64 development
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 23:38:56 +0200
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0109051509001.13716-100000@forest.owlnet.rice.edu>
Jason Lee Eckhardt wrote:
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/Pro64/
> "SGI has discontinued development and support of SGI Pro64TM compiler
> development tools. SGI marketing is interested in hearing from Linux
> developers. Please send any comments or suggestions to
> IA64devtools@oss.sgi.com. Thank you for your interest in SGI Pro64
> compiler development tools."
> I wonder if they might be convinced now to sign over copyright to FSF
> so that some of the more interesting technology (e.g., the high-level
> loop optimizer and the interprocedural opts) in that compiler could be
> developed actively. Just a thought.
Or even the Fortran 90 front end. That would be a pity for all the
effort that went into g95 already, but we cannot seriously let this
opportunity to get an up to date Fortran compiler pass ...
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