Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: GCC is 25 years old today Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:38:14 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Lines: 30 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <12-03-061@comp.compilers> References: <12-03-056@comp.compilers> <12-03-059@comp.compilers> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: leila.iecc.com 1333010587 25391 64.57.183.58 (29 Mar 2012 08:43:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:43:07 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: GCC, Ada, history, comment Posted-Date: 29 Mar 2012 04:43:07 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:528 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)? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de [See http://www.atekcompanies.com/whats-new/usb-kiosk-mat.aspx -John]