*nix on "classic" systems

[Christian Corti]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>   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.

Well, the release notes mention this as system requirement:
Compilers	GCC 3.3 family on Sun Java Desktop System, Release 3 and
 		SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
 		GCC 3.4 family on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4
 	(gcc compiler and g++ compiler only, g77 compiler is not supported)

And the introduction says:
Sun Studio 11 software provides a comprehensive, productive environment 
for developing applications using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for 
the Linux operating system.

So Sun Studio for Linux is just a crappy Java based IDE for GCC.

Christian

PS:
I think this thread has now really become off topic...