Does anyone in gcc land know if this is really true?

[Jim Cookie Thompson on concave]

Quite a bit of discussion on HG these days about the Next machine.
Will they be giving the code away? Does this mean that they won't be
charging for the compiler/debugger?

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>> From: Barry Lustig <uiucdcs!ads.com!barry>
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>> The NeXT display is actually a 2 bit greyscale monitor. Also, the native
>> C compiler for the machine is -- yes, you guessed it -- the GNU C compiler.
>> They are also using gdb as their symbolic debugger. They modified gdb
>> to understand Objective-C, which is a preprocessor, not a native compiler.

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On another note, I finally have gcc (1.24) running on the Convex
machines. A few 'quicky' benchmarks show it to be generating code
that matches the fast 'vector C compiler' that is supposedly on the
cutting edge of compiler technology. No, it doesn't generate any kind
of vector code, but the scalar code is quite good.

Hats off to everyone who has worked on this compiler!

I'll be rolling the diffs in this weekend, and cleaning up
the code some, and will then send the diffs back to RMS.

Q: Is anyone working on parallel extensions to gcc? I'd like to
share thoughts/work/etc.

This completes the port of the major GNU tools to the Convex, emacs
and gdb have been running for quite some time. Convex will be
distributing GNU emacs with its next Utilities release, yes, we will
give the code away. We find that the GNU tools are superior to the
existing tools that they replace.

Jim