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Re: GCC for SPARC Systems
- From: Alexey Starovoytov <alexey dot starovoytov at sun dot com>
- To: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, Rainer Orth <ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:16:15 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: GCC for SPARC Systems
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> Eh, SPARC is not IA-64 so improving the SPARC back-end should not be more
> resource-consuming than designing and maintaining a hybrid compiler. If I'm
gcc4ss wasn't a big effort. gimple form made it easy for us.
> not mistaken, the gap is wide for FP code essentially but Sun doesn't seem
> to care much about FP anymore if I read the Niagara specs correctly.
You're right about Niagara's FP, but it's just one line of products.
> May I also suggest to find a different name for the product? Presumably it
> doesn't run on Linux or FreeBSD so "GCC for SPARC Systems" is a bit
> misleading, given that FSF GCC for SPARC does run on the aforementioned
> operating systems in addition to Solaris. Something like "Sun GCC for
> SPARC/Solaris Systems" although I'm not sure if using "GCC" is not already
> misleading.
Glad you mentioned it. Really. I don't like that name either.
Unfortunatelly that what we were told to use.
May be we'll try to change it.
Also your 'presumtion' is correct for the present only.
Alexey.
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> Eric Botcazou
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