[illumos-Discuss] Little question about compilers and a future...

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 19:08 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> B M <b.maryniuck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I was just wondering: SunStudio is not opened, right? So what happens
> > next, if Snorcle will decide to lock the thing down? Probably so far
> > is the ultimate answer: GCC. But if we use GCC, then what the
> > performance will be, since SunStudio, AFAIK, significantly faster if
> > not twice in some areas. Any other nice-and-fast-and-free compiler
> > around?
> 
> Since today, I am ready with a OSS replacement of an inportant part of the tool 
> chain.
> 
> In order to compile Illumos, you not only need the Sun Studio compiler and Java 
> but also /usr/lib/cpp which is a K&R C preprocessor that is neither part of the 
> onnv consolidation nor part of the Sun Studio consolidation. It was rather 
> unrelated closed source software distrubuted together with SXCE and Indiana 
> under unknown license rules.
> 
> /usr/lib/cpp is more important than I thought before checking it's relevance.
> It is used by rpcgen(1), dtrace(1), aw(1) and as(1) and it is called 1421 times 
> when compiling Illumos. Today a full "nightly" succeeded with the OSS 
> replacement I wrote.


I'm really happy to hear this... I'm glad that you were able to run a
full nightly -- this is in fact why I have such requirements -- so we
don't get surprises. :-)

Can you post a webrev somewhere?

	- Garrett
> 
> Now we really only need to take care of the compiler and Java.
> 
> Jörg
>