SGI discontinues Pro64 development

[Toon Moene]

Jason Lee Eckhardt wrote:

> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/Pro64/

> "SGI has discontinued development and support of SGI Pro64TM compiler
>  development tools. SGI marketing is interested in hearing from Linux
>  developers. Please send any comments or suggestions to
>  IA64devtools@oss.sgi.com. Thank you for your interest in SGI Pro64
>  compiler development tools."

> I wonder if they might be convinced now to sign over copyright to FSF
> so that some of the more interesting technology (e.g., the high-level
> loop optimizer and the interprocedural opts) in that compiler could be
> developed actively. Just a thought.

Or even the Fortran 90 front end.  That would be a pity for all the
effort that went into g95 already, but we cannot seriously let this
opportunity to get an up to date Fortran compiler pass ...

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