*nix on "classic" systems

[Dave McGuire]

On Apr 15, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> This is correct...it has been free and non-nodelocked for some  
>> time now. The current release of Sun Studio is 11, and it's  
>> available Linux on x86, and for Solaris on both SPARC and x86.   
>> It's a fantastic compiler suite...it's all I use for my development.
>
> A _Linux_ version?  That I was unaware of.

   Yup...I don't know when they released it, but I think it was  
sometime last summer.

>   Did they implement GNU compiler extensions like Intel have?

   I doubt it, and I sure hope not.  Rampant, undisciplined use of  
the GCC "extensions" cause great gnashing of teeth for everyone not  
running GCC under Linux on a PC.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL