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   Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 21:43:34 +0100
   From: marcus@x4u.desy.de (Marcus Speh)
   To: help-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu
   Subject: g++ on the CRAY-YMP?
   
   I have a relatively urgent, simple question.
   
   *  Has GCC (or rather the last version which allows template classes)
   *  been ported to the CRAY(-YMP)?
   
   This is a 50,000$ question, because that is the price CRAY wants
   from our supercomputer center for their product. And I am not even
   sure about whether they allow templates. It is urgent because 
   it has to be ordered yesterday in order to be available in 2 months.
   
   In the config.sub file of the GCC distribution, there is a switch
   for cray-ymp, but I can't see whether this really means that GCC
   has been ported there. If you know of another (private) port,
   I'd be glad to hear about it, too.
   
   Thanks a lot,
     --Marcus Speh
     --<marcus@x4u.desy.de>
   
   ps. sorry if you see this more than once---I have been trying
       to post to gnu... groups but our news server seems to be
       broken.

Here's my $50,000 question: given that you have $50,000, how would you
like to spend it?  Would you like to pay Cray to support a proprietary
C++ compiler, or would you like to be able to pay Cray (or somebody
else) $50,000 for support of a free C++ compiler?

Finding clever ways to avoid spending any money on a given software
solution leads to the ultimate result that *nobody* will be able to
afford to provide the support you need.  When GNU software is used in
this fashion, nobody wins.

Finding ways to spend money that (a) meets your needs, and (b) does so
in the best possible way (i.e., sustainable, long-term win-win, etc.),
makes good business sense, and represents what I think is the smartest
way to spend money.  If you think that some day you might use a
machine other than a Cray, it's better to spend money on a solution
that can work just as well on other platforms as on Cray machines.

Michael