IBM announced two compilers for Mac OS X: “IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition V8.1 for Mac OS X — A new platform supported in the IBM XL Fortran family” and “XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V6.0 for Mac OS X — A new platform for the IBM family of C/C++ compilers“.
IBM Announces C/C++ and Fortran Compilers for Mac OS X
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Anyone know how much this costs? I’ve often thought of getting a Mac for a workstation but I need F95. I wish there was a good free F95 compiler for OSX, but aside from maybe gfortran, I don’t know of one.
too bad nearly all OS X applications are written in Obj C. Hopefully they will have a compiler for ObjC soon.
Read the description of the C/C++ compiler — it appears than ObjC is supported. I kind of wish, however, that IBM would devote more of its energy helping out the gcc folks improve gcc performance on PPC than screwing with their own compiler. Oh well.
That’s the price. Don’t remember where I have seen it.
> Read the description of the C/C++ compiler — it appears than ObjC is supported.
The article says the Xcode supports Obj C but doesn’t not say the new compiler does. Xcode supports Obj C via GCC.
Furthermore, GCC has a hard time producing machine code for the G5 since the software arch. of GCC doesn’t allow the G5 to easily fit into a predefined processor mold. More info at:
http://arstechnica.com/cpu/03q1/ppc970/ppc970-0.html
> The article says the Xcode supports Obj C but doesn’t
> say the new compiler does. Xcode supports Obj C via GCC.
You misread the article. In addition to the Xcode support, the article also states clearly that:
“XL C/C++ Advanced Edition compiler supports Objective-C”
See the section “Technical preview – Selected functions”
yeah, who needs ’em.
but we ought to see some pretty interesting benchmarks soon, once the test suite can be compiled with proper optimization on PowerPC.
maybe the PC fanboys will be embarrassed before it’s all over.
It would be nice to see a SPEC test using optimized compilers on both platforms.
maybe the PC fanboys will be embarrassed before it’s all over.
Gee, I guess we would have to run the tests before making stupid comments – but that doesn’t seem to stop you.
I would still prefer to use Xcode which shipped along with Mac machines.