From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Lehotsky To: help-gcc@gnu.org Subject: Re: GCC for SHARC port to PC (numerical C) Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 10:41:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <852but$f42$1@newnews.mikom.csir.co.za> <38754F47.BDF3113D@well.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-01/msg00096.html In article < 38754F47.BDF3113D@well.com >, Kenneth Porter wrote: >>>mj wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> The gcc port by ADI for the sharc includes numerical extensions to the >>>> C >>>> language (vector, complex arithmetic). I am interested in developing >>>> code >>>> on a PC and port it to the SHARC at a later stage. I would like to >>>> compile >>>> numerical C codes with gcc on a PC without a SHARC. Does anybody have >>>> experience with this? Must I recompile the compiler for the PC? >>>> TYIA >>>> Marthinus >>> >>>I think Gnu adopted the numeric extensions at one point, but I don't >>>know if they're in the current generation of the compiler. There *is* a >>>PC port of gcc. Check out Cygwin ( http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ ) >>>for example. I'm pretty sure that: 1/ The ADI extensions never worked correctly. At least not if you turned on the optimizer. 2/ They have long since been obsoleted in the GCC code (there was some discussion about some code support for iterators that wasn't totally dead, but nobody had a clue about how it was supposed to work.) -- Al -- Quality Software Management http://www.tiac.net/users/lehotsky Process Improvement | Management Consulting | Compiler Implementation From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Lehotsky To: help-gcc@gnu.org Subject: Re: GCC for SHARC port to PC (numerical C) Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <852but$f42$1@newnews.mikom.csir.co.za> <38754F47.BDF3113D@well.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q1/msg00096.html Message-ID: <20000401000000.HKB_FUPy5MD2MCsDOzgbfQ9hSnh_OO78UV94JlS3iDA@z> In article < 38754F47.BDF3113D@well.com >, Kenneth Porter wrote: >>>mj wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> The gcc port by ADI for the sharc includes numerical extensions to the >>>> C >>>> language (vector, complex arithmetic). I am interested in developing >>>> code >>>> on a PC and port it to the SHARC at a later stage. I would like to >>>> compile >>>> numerical C codes with gcc on a PC without a SHARC. Does anybody have >>>> experience with this? Must I recompile the compiler for the PC? >>>> TYIA >>>> Marthinus >>> >>>I think Gnu adopted the numeric extensions at one point, but I don't >>>know if they're in the current generation of the compiler. There *is* a >>>PC port of gcc. Check out Cygwin ( http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ ) >>>for example. I'm pretty sure that: 1/ The ADI extensions never worked correctly. At least not if you turned on the optimizer. 2/ They have long since been obsoleted in the GCC code (there was some discussion about some code support for iterators that wasn't totally dead, but nobody had a clue about how it was supposed to work.) -- Al -- Quality Software Management http://www.tiac.net/users/lehotsky Process Improvement | Management Consulting | Compiler Implementation