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From: lambert@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Michael H Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: porting g++ to a Cray
Keywords: Cray, C++
Message-ID: <90985@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 03:01:10 GMT
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Reply-To: lambert@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Michael H Lambert)
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In article <1991Feb12.204651.27645@nas.nasa.gov> okuyama@amelia (Darin H. Okuyama) writes:
>Has anyone ported the Gnu C++ compiler (g++) to
>a Cray running UNICOS?  For that matter gcc?
>
>Darin Okuyama
>NASA Ames Research Center

I imagine the biggest problem in doing a scalar port would be the 64-bit
word length.  That might well be trivial next to trying to do peephole
vectorization.  I would see little point in doing it unless it could produce
reasonably vectorized code.

Michael H. Lambert
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center