[M3devel] Build Server - Plan

[Jay K]

edg.comWhile almost nobody writes their own C++ compiler, even fewer people write their own C++ frontend.Edison Design Group.A small company whose main/only product is a C++ front end that they license in sourceform to people who are interested in, say, writing a backend only.

 - Jay


> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 06:22:24 +0000
> From: microcode at zoho.com
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] Build Server - Plan
> 
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 05:52:16AM +0000, Jay K wrote:
> > old mail, sorry: indeed Metrowerks isn't relevant, but I figured I'd
> > "stress test" my output.Digital Mars might be another.And yes the Intel
> > compiler -- which is a proxy for a set of compilers -- the EDG
> > frontend.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You lost me here. What is EDG?
> 
> As far as I know, the Intel compiler is a proprietary (and complete,
> self-contained) product of Intel. I think I read on Intel's forums in a post
> by Steve Lionel that earlier versions were based on code that made its way
> from DEC to COMPAQ but was later reworked so that it is almost all new.
> 
> An interesting tangent: I ran some tests earlier and can't remember for sure
> but it seems to me there is some Open64 code in Intel's compilers. Whether
> Intel wrote it and it made its way to Open64, or whether it was part of
> Open64 and Intel took some of it, I do not know.
> 
> > (There are approx four C++ frontends in practical use these days:
> > Microsoft, gcc, clang, EDG.Most compilers other than those use the EDG front
> > end.) 
> 
> 
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