[Fwd: GCC2C compiler/converter]

[Toon Moene]

"David S. Miller" wrote:

>    From: Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>
>    Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 06:01:17 +1000

>    Alexey Starovoytov wrote:
>    ...
>    > Here is a brief description of GCC2C:
>    ...
>    > This converter will be very helpful to developers who use GCC but want
>    > enhanced performance on UltraSPARC platforms, particularly the US-III.
>    > GCC 3.x has no support for US3 prefetch cache or other US3 specific
>    > features. The number of supported optimizations in GCC is significantly
>    > lower than in Forte. This converter delivers the best from both.

> Not true, loop prefetch for Ultra-I/II/III exists even in the current
> 3.1 sources.  The mainline even has an Ultra-III specific scheduler
> description.

Better post that on comp.compilers, then - that's were the original
appeared (yes, I know, it isn't that clear from Tim's headers)

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