14 Apr
2007
14 Apr
'07
10:25 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Scott Quinn wrote:
Pete writes:
GCC runs OK on SGIs, provided that you have a version that coexists with the
version of IRIX that you're running (later (3.2+) versions don't like pre-5
IRIXes. GCC will likely be quite unsatisfactory, though, because the
optimization on MIPS machines is not very good, and especially bad with 2.x
versions. Pre 3.4 versions don't play nicely with MIPSpro/MIPSCC object code,
either.
SPARC is better, indeed for C++ or ANSI C on SunOS4 you will probably have to
use gcc, since Sun's ANSI and C++ compilers are both hard to come by and
nodelocked.
Are you talking about the SUNWspro tools? Those are available for free
download from Sun. I think they call it Studio 11, or something like
that.
--
FBOFW,
modern "free" *nix ports tend to use gcc, and gcc is
such a resource hog for anything smaller than a VAX. Even on
a VAX it's colossaly slow.
Augh....any idea how it fares on, say, Sun or SGI machines?