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Re: Will Apple still support GCC development?
- From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- To: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Cc: samsmythe at coolindian dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:13:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: Will Apple still support GCC development?
- References: <26513648.1118088427970.JavaMail.root@dtm1eusosrv72.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net> <42A4BA0C.6080300@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
Toon Moene wrote:
The first
thing I did after receiving it is wiping out OS X and installing a real
operating system, i.e., Debian.
Is it really necessary to post flame bait like this, hopefully people
ignore this
A big endian system is indispensible if you are a compiler writer,
because little endian hardware hides too many programmer errors; At the
previous GCC Summit even the head of the Intel compiler group agreed
with me on this and pointed out that the Itanium can be run in big
endian mode.
In general I think you need to test both cases, since for sure quite
a bit of stuff does depend on endianness.
Well, they could do all they might. I'm just waiting for IBM coming
forward with a Linux PowerPC64 laptop, so that I can continue to use big
endian hardware.
Suggestion, don't hold your breath!