IBM Adds New "Arch13" Processor Support To GCC 9

[phoronix]

Phoronix: IBM Adds New "Arch13" Processor Support To GCC 9

GCC 9 is just weeks away from being officially released while today IBM engineers added support for new "arch13" processors to this next compiler update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=IBM-Arch13-Lands-GCC9

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That should be quite useful if you happen to have a few IBM mainframes lying around. I often wonder if IBM should embrace a hobbyist program, allowing a Hobbyist license for z/OS for people to run it on an emulator in order to increase the base of people who are knowledgable of it. I know a lot of programmers got into Linux on the old 386 they had and started their careers that way.

[caligula]

Did ESR already manage to port the whole gcc repository from those legacy formats to git?

[torsionbar28]

Did ESR already manage to port the whole gcc repository from those legacy formats to git?

No, he can't, he needs more RAM.

[George99]

Those shiny new Intel Xeon SP processors with up to 4.5 TB RAM will get the job done or does he still need more?

[aht0]

Not enough I am afraid!

[Dinah699]

That should be quite useful if you happen to have a few IBM mainframes lying around. I often wonder if IBM should embrace a hobbyist program, allowing a Hobbyist license for z/OS for people to run it on an emulator in order to increase the base of people who are knowledgable krogerfeedback of it. I know a lot of programmers got into Linux on the old 386 they had and started their careers that way.

Sorry not familiar with the topic.