*nix on "classic" systems

[Steven N. Hirsch]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Scott Quinn wrote:

> Pete writes:
>
>>> 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?
>
> 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.



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