[Fwd: GCC2C compiler/converter]

[Alexey Starovoytov]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Richard Zidlicky wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:27:04PM -0700, Alexey Starovoytov wrote:
>
> > Although GCC2C is not an official part of GCC, it's free and can be
> > distributed under GPL.
>
> "can be"?? As soon as it uses or links to any code from GCC it *must be*
> distributed GPL only.

Absolutely. It *is* distributed GPL.

> > Don't need to argue that peak Sun Forte performance is way better than GCC
> > on UltraSPARCs.
>
> .. and you loose all debugging capabilities.

It was always hard to debug highly optimized code. GCC2C is targeting
"final" builds where only performance matters. In that case a longer compilation
time is not an issue too.

Best regards,
Alexey.