Re: Is Sun putting much effort into supporting the gcc/binutils toolchain on sparc64 ?

[Sunil Amitkumar Janki <devel dot sjanki at gmail dot com>]

Lijuan Hai wrote:
> Maybe you would find what you want at the following URL:
> http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=46448222
>
> gccfss means 'GCC for SPARC System'
>
> 2007/9/12, Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>:
>   
> > I have to make buying decisions, and having tested a Sun T1000 for a
> > while I am impressed with Suns hardware. But, we are 100% gnu/linux and
> > it disturbs me that David Miller seems to be a (very impressive) team of
> > 1 on the sparclinux ML (My impression; perhaps I am wrong?)
> >
> > So I wonder, is Sun putting any more effort into developing and
> > supporting the gcc/binutils toolchain?
> >
> > [Apologies for slightly off-topic post]
> >
> > Andrew Walrond
> >
> >     
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(even more off-topic)

Hi,

That's also what I thought at first. Sun putting effort into
GCC on SPARC to the benefit of GCC itself. But this is not
what it seems to be.

As far as I know, GCC for SPARC appears to be a front end
to the Sun Studio compiler which happens to translate GCC
flags to ones suitable for their own compiler.

Sunil