The GlobalGCC project launches

Posted Nov 2, 2006 2:29 UTC (Thu) by gdt (subscriber, #6284)
In reply to: The GlobalGCC project launches by ajross
Parent article: The GlobalGCC project launches

In these pan-European mainly-government projects the media release is a public statement by the parties of their funding and staffing of the project. Overt mention of developer names would be unsuited to the purpose of such a statement of commitment (although if you knew the compiler development community you could probably read between the lines).

That funding and staffing doesn't ensure success, nor does it ensure that the results will be rolled back into the mainline GCC code. You can see some efforts to coordinate for that integration to occur on the mailing list. Furthermore these sort of projects tend to be funded for precisely 30 months, so the quality of project management needs to be quite high to achieve a timely delivery.

I wish the project all the best. There is a desperate need for a free compiler with GCC-compatibile syntax which generates code of sufficient quality for scientific computing.