[csw-maintainers] Solaris Studio vs GCC

[trygvis at opencsw.org]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:10:04PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> James Lee <james at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 
> > <quote src="http://gcc.gnu.org/">
> > GNU system was developed to be 100% free software, free in the sense that
> > it respects the user's freedom.
> > </quote>
> >
> > This includes users exercising the freedom to not use gcc.  As most of
> > the projects causing problems are run by people with a quasi-religious
> > fanaticism to openness and freedom the best hope in effecting change to
> > the upstream software is to play on this and point out that software
> > that is locked in to one compiler or system is not open and contravenes
> > their own beliefs.
> 
> Well said!
> 
> Unfortunately Sun did not publish cc as OSS even though the legal process was 
> ready years ago. Did someone look for gcc alternatives?
> 
> I am asking this as it may become important for compiling Schilix-ON in the 
> future.

One alternative that I'm following (mainly for other reasons but still)
is the generic compiler/virtual machine infrastructure LLVM and it's C
frontend Clang.

-- 
Trygve