[cfarm-users] cfarm110 and cfarm111 decommissioning on February 27

[Peter Gutmann]

Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> writes:

>xlc had its own personality.  (But not nearly as bad as SunCC).

SunCC was (is) actually quite useful, it picked up a few things that no other
compiler, even with -Wall -Wextra, noticed.  That's the benefit of the
diversity provided by the cfarm.

(For the maintainers, if you ever get offered any of the IAR/Segger/Diab
compilers, they'd be great to have available.  Alongside xlc and SunCC they're
some of the few remaining holdouts against the gcc/clang monoculture, and even
then xlc looks like it'll be the xlclang Frankencompiler moving forward).

Peter.