[oi-dev] Transitioning from Sun Studio to gcc & clang/llvm

[Andrzej Szeszo]

On 05/23/11 04:22 PM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> Hi Albert,
>
> Thanks for the feedback, partial answers inline below!
>
> On 23 May 2011, at 16:05, Albert Lee wrote:
>> Should we be linking libgcc statically (apparently adds on the order
>> of 10k to every binary) or will every application depend on a package
>> with the gcc libraries?
> Still open for discussion - what are you/others thoughts? Beyond just the on-disk size, there's the in-memory size and presumably a performance difference.
I think I would be after linking libgcc in statically by default. I 
would help binaries produced by ISVs to be more portable especially 
after we switch to a newer compiler in the future.
>>> 2. Follow the library layout guidelines set down by SFE
I would look at the guidelines again. If we are deciding that gcc will 
be the default/official compiler maybe we could use the standard paths 
for its libraries, etc.
>>> 3. Compile gcc to use Sun ld, but GNU as
+1

As Sun ld and GNU as are recommended by the upstream. 
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html

Andrzej