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

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

Chris Newport wrote:
> Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote:
>
> > GCC for SPARC is a front end to this compiler, which isn't available
> > for Linux/SPARC so not really useful at all. If Sun Studio were 
> > available
> > for GNU/Linux SPARC this front end would probably function the same as
> > on Solaris, maybe even without any changes at all.
> >
> > I don't know if the source code to this front end has been released 
> > in the
> > open or if it is even useful to the GCC project in general and to 
> > GNU/Linux
> > on SPARC in particular.
> gcc and the GNU toolchain for Solaris can be found at 
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/ which is sponsored by Sun.
>
> This contains all of the hardware related stuff, so it should not be
> difficult to recompile for sparclinux.  All under GPL of course.

I am sorry if I wasn't clear in my reasoning. I know that
GCC and the GNU toolchain is available for both Linux and
Solaris on SPARC.

What I was talking about is http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc
and a discussion about this can be found in the GCC mailing list
archives:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00140.html

Sunil