Solaris version number stew

[mcmanus at AppliedTheory.com (Patrick McManus)]

circa 1997 or so I was forced to use the sun compiler/ilinker (part of
sparcworks at least at the time) for compatibility with some 3rd party
object only libraries.. one was from a vendor whom I no longer recall,
and the other was the oracle OCI stuff.. oracle stated this as a
requirement, I don't know if that's still true.

the issues were more in depth than simply name mangling as well.. I
believe they focused around alignment issues and assumptions made by
the libraries. (unarticulated assumptions that I couldn't emulate in
my code without more reverse engineering than the schedule allowed.)

-P

[John Abreau: Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:34:48AM -0500]
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, David Allan wrote:
> 
> > What's the general take on gcc for Solaris?  I know the C compiler that
> > ships isn't great, and you can buy a better one from Sun, but I've used
> > gcc to build stuff and it seems ok.  I'm no programmer, though.
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> Actually, Sun doesn't ship a C compiler with Solaris at all. There's a
> dummy "cc" program in /usr/ucb that just prints an error message:
> 
>     /usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
> 
> Most of the claims I've heard were that gcc gave better code, but I've
> never seen hard data regarding the issue.
> 
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