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- From: J J Farrell <jjf@dsbc.icl.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help,gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: URGENT info request
- Message-ID: <1427@dsbc.icl.co.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 04:36:45 GMT
- Followup-To: gnu.gcc.help
- Organization: International Computers Limited
- Lines: 47
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- [ Although I urgently need help concerning gcc, I've a feeling that
- this message doesn't quite belong in gnu.gcc.help; I apologise if
- it is inappropriate. ]
-
- I want to use gcc and friends as a cross environment running on SPARC
- SVR4 machines to produce code for m68k based peripheral controller
- cards. We have prototyped this very successfully - my thanks to the
- many GNU contributors. I now need to justify my recommendation of
- the GNU software to my management.
-
- Within the next day or so I need to get together a list of "good
- things" about the GNU C development tools which will convince people
- that they are robust enough, reliable enough, and of high-enough
- quality to use in the building of major commercial products. The sorts
- of things I'm after are:
-
- - names of commercial organisations who use gcc to produce software
- products (especially large companies, and systems software); I'm
- aware that Dell and NeXT use gcc to produce their UNIX operating
- systems, and release it as their compilation system.
-
- - benchmark comparisons of object code produced by gcc and other
- compilers (especially for m68k family, especially systems software;
- my main criterion is the performance of the produced program -
- compilation times, and so on, are of little consequence).
-
- - recommendations for commercial organisations who provide support
- for GNU users. I'm aware of Cygnus Support - are there others
- similar? Anyone with good stories to tell of the quality of support
- offered?
-
- - experience from people who've used the GNU tools as a cross-build
- system, especially targeting m68k, even better if run on SPARC,
- and better still if running under SVR4!
-
- - anything else I haven't thought of which might be useful!
-
- I need to get this together very quickly, so fast responses would be
- greatly appreciated - a short reply as soon as you read this will
- probably be of more use to me than a longer one later. Please reply
- by mail (to jjf@dsbc.icl.co.uk); I'll post a summary to gnu.misc.discuss
- in a few days if anyone asks me to do so.
-
- Thanks for reading this far, and for any help you can offer; and I
- suppose I had better point out that any views or opinions expressed
- or implied in this message are my own, and should not be taken as
- indicative of ICL's views and opinions.
-