Open64 note

[Roman Divacky]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:45:57PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> Mike, the fellow who kindly donated pkgsrc bulk build time on df.v12.su
> for us, passed along some links on the Open64 compiler.
> 
> It apparently has some recent patches that make it close to workable for
> FreeBSD, and so may also work on DragonFly, and be better than GCC for
> amd64, plus it has a GPLv2 license instead of GPLv3.
> 
> http://pkg.osunix.org/open64/open64-opensolaris-fbsd-merged-3-12.diff.gz
> 
> https://svn.open64.net/svnroot/open64/trunk
> 
> http://www.open64.net/about-open64.html
> 

if you are thinking about alternative compilers to gcc, take a look at clang/llvm.

we got freebsd kernel compiling and booting with it. go check dragonfly status with it.

	http://clang.llvm.org

roman