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Re: [Fwd: GCC2C compiler/converter]
- From: Alexey Starovoytov <starlex at eng dot sun dot com>
- To: Richard Zidlicky <Richard dot Zidlicky at stud dot informatik dot uni-erlangen dot de>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:42:09 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: GCC2C compiler/converter]
- Reply-to: Alexey Starovoytov <stork at sun dot com>
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:27:04PM -0700, Alexey Starovoytov wrote:
>
> > Although GCC2C is not an official part of GCC, it's free and can be
> > distributed under GPL.
>
> "can be"?? As soon as it uses or links to any code from GCC it *must be*
> distributed GPL only.
Absolutely. It *is* distributed GPL.
> > Don't need to argue that peak Sun Forte performance is way better than GCC
> > on UltraSPARCs.
>
> .. and you loose all debugging capabilities.
It was always hard to debug highly optimized code. GCC2C is targeting
"final" builds where only performance matters. In that case a longer compilation
time is not an issue too.
Best regards,
Alexey.