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mjc@nuance.com (Mark Justin Cecil) writes:
; 
; No one I know of has ever compiled gcc on a Cray of any type.
; 
; We have been over this a hundred times...  Unless you just want 
; to use the preprocessor only, porting GCC is pointless.  The Cray
; folks have spent a LOT of time and money building a really good
; C compiler, and I have doubts as to whether the UNIX/GNU community
; could ever put in enough time to approach its effectiveness.

hmmm, I don't know about that.  I'd wager SUN has put more hours into their
C compiler than CRI into theirs,  and gcc out-performs SUN's.  ('Course,
there is much more interest in SUNs in the "UNIX/GNU community" than in
CRI systems.)  But, whatever ...

The neat hack here is to write a gcc back-end (code generator) that
generates vanilla ANSI C.  Why have a C compiler generate C?  So you can use
all the nifty options of gcc, and support GNU tools based on gcc, not
the least of which is g++.  Feed the vanilla C through Cray's C for
your vectorization and such.


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