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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. > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email jabr at blu.org > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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