Highly optimized IA-64 compiler ported to FreeBSD

[Saifi Khan]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, C. wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've been working primarily on the port of Open64 to OpenSolaris, but that's
> probably not interesting.  The interesting part is that I've slowly been
> merging my work with another FreeBSD developer.  I know Open64 generates
> highly optimized code for IA-64 and thought to see if anyone in the community
> wants to help participate/test.
> 
> Patch:
> http://pkg.osunix.org/open64/open64-opensolaris-fbsd-merged-3-12b.diff.gz
> 
> svn:
> https://svn.open64.net/svnroot/open64/trunk
> 
> Original port: (Not updated to include fixes, but still may be useful)
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dinoex/ports/open64.tar.gz
> 
> If you don't know what Open64 is or why you should care.. (The release notes
> for 4.2 should give some idea..)
> http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=629880&group_id=34861
> 
> ------------
> 
> Another developer and I are trying to overcome two additional problems with
> Open64
> 
> 1) Documentation needs a lot of work
> 2) There's not real /community/ for open collaboration
> 
> For the first problem we're just slowly collecting all research and current
> documentation available.  Currently, we are mostly trying to focus on
> documenting the different sections of the code and what each phase does.  From
> there we'll strengthen the retargetting guide and I may make a paper on the
> OpenSolaris/FreeBSD port.
> 
> The second problem is more social though.  We've setup an irc channel and
> putting in the extra work to find not only those who are doing the research,
> but also the end users.
> 
> So feel free to drop by or recommend a friend take a look to help spread the
> word.
> 
> Thanks
> ./Christopher
> 

i'll be keen to participate and help.

Please let me know, if the compiler source code has been 
released under BSD or Apache Software (ASL) license ?

Please let me know.


thanks
Saifi.