From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sunil Amitkumar Janki Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:01:12 +0000 Subject: Re: Is Sun putting much effort into supporting the gcc/binutils toolchain Message-Id: <46E93498.2080102@gmail.com> List-Id: References: <46E7CF5F.3090909@walrond.org> In-Reply-To: <46E7CF5F.3090909@walrond.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Chris Newport wrote: > Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: > >> >> GCC for SPARC is a front end to this compiler, which isn't available >> for Linux/SPARC so not really useful at all. If Sun Studio were >> available >> for GNU/Linux SPARC this front end would probably function the same as >> on Solaris, maybe even without any changes at all. >> >> I don't know if the source code to this front end has been released >> in the >> open or if it is even useful to the GCC project in general and to >> GNU/Linux >> on SPARC in particular. >> > gcc and the GNU toolchain for Solaris can be found at > http://www.sunfreeware.com/ which is sponsored by Sun. > > This contains all of the hardware related stuff, so it should not be > difficult to recompile for sparclinux. All under GPL of course. I am sorry if I wasn't clear in my reasoning. I know that GCC and the GNU toolchain is available for both Linux and Solaris on SPARC. What I was talking about is http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc and a discussion about this can be found in the GCC mailing list archives: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00140.html Sunil