Re: [PATCH] Allow compiling with gcc 2.95

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Monday, January 13, 2003 04:09:17 PM -0800 Jeffrey Oldham 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > The following patch allows compiling with gcc 2.95 (dont know if this is
> > a good idea - could not test whole testsuite because compilation aborts
> > with out of memory).
>
> Compiling with gcc2.95 is a good idea because these compilers will
> continue to be used for the next few years.  Please commit the patch.

Red Hat shipped its GCC 2.95 (more like 3.0 than 2.95) in Red Hat 7.x,
which is now a couple of years old.  I can say with certainty that no
CodeSourcery customer who would want to do anything like POOMA will be
using GCC 2.95 at this point.

My guess is that Intel's icc compiler is going to be the most common
compiler for high-performance computing; our government is building
almost exclusively Pentium4-based supercomputers over the next couple
of years.  icc uses the EDG front end and generates very good code.

FYI,

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Mark Mitchell                address@hidden
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