GCC for SHARC port to PC (numerical C)

[Kenneth Porter]

mj wrote:
> 
> Hi
> The gcc port by ADI for the sharc includes numerical extensions to the C
> language (vector, complex arithmetic).  I am interested in developing code
> on a PC and port it to the SHARC at a later stage.  I would like to compile
> numerical C codes with gcc on a PC without a SHARC.  Does anybody have
> experience with this? Must I recompile the compiler for the PC?
> TYIA
> Marthinus

I think Gnu adopted the numeric extensions at one point, but I don't
know if they're in the current generation of the compiler. There *is* a
PC port of gcc. Check out Cygwin ( http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ )
for example.