Jim Sartain: We still have no
current plans to provide HP support,
but we’ll continue to evaluate
that. We’re seeing more and more
cases when we’re needing to
use this compiler. We’re seeing more
and more cases where you need to
use it, and that might point
to us coming to a crossover point
where it’s worthwhile supporting
it. I think one of the other
questions that was asked at the same
forum was how many people were
using GCC. It was fairly low number,
but we’re seeing that number
increase.
Joe Geiser: That number is
increasing, especially with porting.
The thing is, I’m leery to use
it with products that I might put
together with my firm or for
clients for support reasons. It’s
clearly superior in many cases to
HP’s C compiler. I would prefer
to use it, but on the other hand
without support I would be silly
to put something together for a
client and then have to support
GCC. I can’t support GCC.
Jim Sartain: How many people would
this be a strong interest for?
Looks like maybe 10 or 15 percent
of the audience.