Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:13:18 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Watcom compiler Message-ID: <15945.1278.292937.743702@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030211003353.GA12187@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030211003353.GA12187@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar writes: > Are people interested in a native non-gcc compiler for FreeBSD/alpha? Yes. > How happy will people be (scale 1-10) if the compiler could compile > the kernel as well? 10 > Am I right when I say that Compaq's compiler cannot be used to > compile the kernel? Yes. This is mainly due to lazyness on our part. The Compaq compiler does not support gcc asm syntanx, so making it compile the kernel would largely be a matter of converting inline asm (as well as stepping over other hurdles common to non-gnu compilers). Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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