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.
