[M3devel] new target names -- SOLsun vs. SOLgnu? I386_SOLARIS Sun cc vs. GNU cc?

[Jay K]

Yes it is free of cost. But maybe people still prefer gcc for some reason?
e.g. they have some Linux/sparc assembly?
or use gcc extensions?
We generally don't do either in the Modula-3 libraries, since we already compile with Sun cc for Sparc.
 
Or for cross build purposes?
 That can be pretty powerful -- building a full gcc+ld cross toolset. I'm using that for VMS currently (for ld you have to use trunk, the support isn't in the latest release). Though binutils/ld/gas support is a little spotty outside of Linux, generally not as much as gcc. And you have to copy the headers/libraries from the target machine.
 
 
 - Jay



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> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 13:01:19 -0700
> From: mika at async.async.caltech.edu
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] new target names -- SOLsun vs. SOLgnu? I386_SOLARIS Sun cc vs. GNU cc?
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> Jay K writes:
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>>I thought I had sent a followup on this:
>> https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3devel/2010-April/006836.html
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>>Can you suggest precise platform name and precise other decisions?
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>>This is coming up sooner-not-later also for I386_SOLARIS/AMD64_SOLARIS.
>>The provided machine's readme says we have Solaris 8=2C 9=2C 10 machines=2C
>>with multiple versions of Sun and GNU compilers.
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>>Do I just declare that we only support Sun compiler?
>>Anyone who for some reason wants GNU gets to "rewrite" the config file and =
>>keep it to himself?
>>Or we somehow provide Sun and GNU "configurations" and user can pick one?
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> Does Sun's cc (or whatever is needed of it to make CM3 work) come free
> nowadays? It used to be a pay package on Solaris.
>
> Mika