[OpenIndiana-discuss] open64 as a replacement for Sun Studio?

[ken mays]

Hi Mads,

LLVM/CLANG is great conceptually, but many FOSS people already used and support GCC and Sun Studio as the formal compilers. I think people can use what they want to compile programs and build packages - but standing with
the "well known and supported" tools is a 'safer' concept.

Guess it leads us to old debates about this...

~ Ken Mays



--- On Fri, 9/17/10, Mads Worsøe Petersen <mads at worsoe.dk> wrote:

> From: Mads Worsøe Petersen <mads at worsoe.dk>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] open64 as a replacement for Sun Studio?
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 4:32 AM
> 2010/9/17 Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com>
> 
> > On 09/17/10 06:56 PM, Tak Pui Lou wrote:
> >
> >> I have been thinking about the comments on
> performance impact of moving to
> >> gcc. Would open64 be a better choice in terms of
> performance?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > There's no good reason to move away from cc.  gcc
> will always be there as a
> > fall back.
> >
> > --
> > Ian.
> >
> >
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> A good reason could be the license (GPLv3). I prefer a
> shift to LLVM/CLANG
> like FreeBSD.
> 
> Mads
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