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Anthony Pearson
Systematic Solutions
141 Halton Ln.
Watsonville, CA 95076

Dear GCC Help-Group : We are a small start-up company interested
		      in distributing GCC with our hardware product.
		      We are in the design stages of producing a PC
		      add-in board EISA/ISA bus compatible, utilizing
		      an R4000 CPU. We are also contemplating an i860
		      product at a later date.	There are some general 
		      questions, we have about GCC involving its 
		      performance, and preprocessor ability with 
		      respect to the R400, as well as to the i860. The 
		      questions we have are:


			1)  The GCC info docs imply that GCC can
			    be configured for the R4000. What kind
			    of bugs can we expect and is the 
			    configuration really optimized so as
			    to be competitive with commercially
			    available compilers such as that from
			    Greenhills, Microway, or Laheigh etc.

			    Which architecture (i860 or R4000) is the 
			    GCC compiler best suited for? 
					
			2)  Does the GCC preprocessor provide 
			    optimization support for the R4000,
			    or i860. Specifically : vectorization,
			    loop-unrolling. Does it produce code that
			    runs in an efficient pipe-lined manner? 

			3)  Can we obtain LINPAC ratings for the
			    routines SSDOT, DDOT running on the i860
			    and the R4000. If not the R4000,
			    then the R3000. Can we get these
			    ratings with and without optimization.

			4)  Does the Open Software Foundation provide
			    a Fortran compiler.

			5)  Will GCC be available for a Windows-NT
			    environment in the near future. If not
			    what will be the magnitude of a project
			    to adapt it to Windows NT.


		I appreciate any help and information that you can
provide us in these areas.  If our product comes to fruition, we would
very much like to make an arrangement with your organization to 
distribute the GCC compiler with our product. I can also be reached
at the following E-Mail addresses.*


				Sincerely,

				Anthony Pearson

*  U6534@y1.sdsc.edu
   U27150@uy.ncsa.uiuc.edu