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RE: OpenWatcom compiler source code is available now
- From: "Roman Levenshteyn (EED)" <Roman dot Levenshteyn at eed dot ericsson dot se>
- To: "'Andrew Haley'" <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:36:21 +0200
- Subject: RE: OpenWatcom compiler source code is available now
Hi,
>Roman Levenshteyn writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> has anyone noticed that OpenWatcom project released the source code
>> for Watcom C, C++ and Fortran compilers. I think it can be of big
>> interest for GCC project.
Andrew Haley writes:
>I really don't see how.
>gcc is licensed under the GPL, and although I'm not a lawyer the Open
>Watcom Public License doesn't look GPL compatible to me.
That's true. It's not GPL compatible.
But the internals of the compilers, advanced optimization algorithms,
the way how precompiled headers are implemented and many other things
could be interesting for GCC folks. May be some interesting ideas and
not necessarily the source code could be borrowed from OpenWatcom
compilers. These compilers were among the best ones for DOS and Windows
5-10 years ago.
Roman.