On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 03:11:55PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 8:47 PM Måns Rullgård <mans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:08 AM Måns Rullgård <mans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > We don't have any specific support for ECOFF. > > > > > > > > I _think_. Again, it's been years and years. I agree. I personally have never run any OSF/1 executables on Linux Alpha and have no interest in doing so. > > The main historic use case I've heard of was running Netscape > > Navigator on Alpha Linux, before there was an open source version. > > Doing this today to connect to the open internet is probably > > a bit pointless, but there may be other use cases. > > The best use case I know of is to run their C compiler. Måns sent > patches in fact to make it work. > > There is a Linux version of the same compiler but I have a vague > memory that it's broken in various ways that the Tru64 version is > not. The last time I tried the Compaq C compiler for Alpha-Linux it still worked, well, that is, the compiler worked, but the library header files are broken and haven't worked with glibc for a long time. So it is only useful as a free-standing compiler. In the past it also produced better code than gcc, but gcc is now so vastly improved w.r.t. optimisation and compliance to more recent standards, that I would be surprised if there is any real use for the Compaq compiler. Cheers, Michael.
