Re: The development tendency of compilation tech?

"Derek M. Jones" wrote:

Hello Yunzhi Xue,

I'm working on a survey of the development tendency of compilation
technology. But there are too many issues and I am such a Green
Hand. So could anybody please tell my about the possible major trend
of compilation tech?

[So what's new in compilers this year? -John]


Can we predict how long it will be before gcc is the world's only C
compiler? It provides tough competition and there are not many
commercial vendors left.

GCC is showing its age. It does make the risk of new compiler idea's
much higher. It also shows that support provides a viable revenue
stream.

GCC has made few inroads in application areas where tool price is a
small percentage of development costs.

GCC based tools have made very little inroads into volume small
embedded applications, processors with unusual instruction sets or
multiple processor applications


o the effort required to write a commercial quality compiler
will continue to grow and fewer and fewer of them will be written.

No argument. Good compiler implementation is a labor intensive activity.

My trend choice is multiprocessor support from a single source
application. It is happening now in specialized applications.

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