gmpbench: Ultra40 Solaris10 Studio11

[Timothy Jacobson]

Just to be clear on what free is:  Sun Studio compilers are free.  We do 
not charge money for them.  They can be downloaded and installed without 
charge.  They are not open-source at this time.  Some people use the 
word free to mean open-source.  However, the long range plan at Sun is 
to open-source our compilers.  Upper management has made that commitment 
for the future.  I don't know when that date will be.  There are legal 
issues that must be sorted out.  Sun has already open-sourced the 
Solaris operating system called Open-Solaris. 

As for Sun Studio 12 which will be released this summer.  There will be 
a linux compatible Sun Studio C, C++ and Fortran compiler as part of the 
release.  The Sun Studio linux compilers intend to utilize all the GNU 
GCC specific flags and accept GNU GCC-defined inline code.  I have not 
tested this yet, but hope to have some cycles to devote to it in the 
next few months.  I'll report it to the GMP community when I get it to 
work.  I hope this helps.

Tim Jacobson

Torbjorn Granlund wrote On 04/10/07 08:38,:

>nisse at lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
>
>  If longlong.h is used only internally by GMP, then it should be no
>  problem to guard the inline assembly with a configure supplied
>  
>    #if WITH_INLINE_ASSEMBLER
>  
>  rather than the compiler supplied
>  
>    #if defined (__GNUC__)
>  
>Yes, assuming 100% compatibility between the GCC-defined inline
>assembly and the non-free compiler's version.  But that is hardly the
>case.
>
>  What is the LONGLONG_STANDALONE define used for?
>
>It allows GMP's version of longlong.h to be used with the same
>interface as initially defined for longlong.h in GCC, not requiring
>the support of separate (assembly) files.  GMP's longlong.h otherwise
>requires some files from mpn/<machine> when compiled with certain
>(typically non-free) compilers.
>
>  
>