Re: GCC is 25 years old today

From	"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: GCC is 25 years old today
Date	2012-03-28 16:38 +0200
Organization	cbb software GmbH
Message-ID	<12-03-061@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:27:03 -0000, compilers@is-not-my.name wrote:

> As you know Adacore still makes plenty of money.

First GNAT is GCC. Second AdaCore does not sell it. GNAT is free. AdaCore
sells support and an escape from the GPL-jail.

> So does Green Hills.

Yes, compilers for embedded systems are not completely dead. Just because
new processors come and die quicker than the process of suffocation fastens
its grip. In fact it is the BSP people are buying, not the compilers. And
for a given board there is normally only one compiler +/- GCC. This is not
yet a market. If it became one, it would suffer the same fate, the market
of PC compilers did. The point is that, as with the case of AdaCore,
embedded is more about selling services than about selling compilers.

> There are several significant compiler companies. Not as many as in
> the 1970s and not on as many platforms but there are still some doing a
> pretty good business.

How could it become less in the era of mobile computing, GPUs, concurrent,
networking systems? When computers are infesting everything except for
maybe door mats (yet to come)?

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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