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

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

Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Andrew Walrond wrote:
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> > David Miller wrote:
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> > > That's correct, it's essentially GCC's language front ends
> > > plugged into Sun's compiler backend.
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> > And presumably is solaris only doesn't work under gnu/linux?
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> >     
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> Sorry; that is thinko/typo/horrible. What I actually meant:
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> Presumably the gccfss/scgfss is only available for solaris and not
> gnu/linux?
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> > Andrew Walrond
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Sun Studio is available for Solaris and GNU/Linux x86 and Solaris SPARC.

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.

Sunil