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Previously, I had asked:

>>    *  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. 

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

   I very much agree with the rest of the message in favor
of "free" software for which I am a pushy evangelist at our
lab.
   The present situation is different, though. The
supercomputer center in question offered to buy the AT&T
C++ compiler (which seems to be a cfront only, anyway ?) in order
to test it with our programs for exchange. What really surprises
me is that we seem to be the first people at this pretty large
computer center to ask that question.
   Now, the research grant for our group includes a certain amount of 
cpu time to be spent on the cray. The only alternative is a Paragon 
which is not really running yet and has got a commercial C++ compiler 
as well. I am sorry to say that we're not that flexible to draw practical
conclusions from your advice, given our present constrains (and 
skills). I gather that for a company, the situation will be different
again. 

Another help came from RMS (thanks a lot!) who advises to commission
a port of GCC employing an (assumed) compatibility between the Convex
and the Cray.
I forwarded his message to the people which run the Cray to check 
that.

  Thanks in any case,
  --Marcus Speh
  --<marcus@x4u.desy.de>