Open64 Compiler Version 5.0 released

To those new to Open64, it is a high-quality compiler, with some good internal design and good optimization phases. SGI's former compiler team was highly respected within the compiler community.

It is unfortunate that it is not more well-known. However, it is used by a lot of compiler research groups to prototype new ideas.

Indeed, does it do more than C?

C++? Objective-C? Inline Assembler?

Does it work with XCode instead of GCC or LLVM?

Can I compile an OS X app from the command-line and avoid XCode all together. use GDB to debug.

I dont know the answer to any of these and When I visit Intel, they answer all of these which makes me interested in spending money for them when maybe Open64 is a better project that I can contribute to and donate to versus big corporate Intel...

Hm, never heard about Open64 before. Also, as Confusion said, from looking on their homepage, I didn't really get what it was.

Wikipedia helped a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open64

So, a C/C++ and Fortran compiler. It seems it actually doesn't do parsing itself and rather just uses some other frontend for the parsing (GCC in case of C/C++). So it seems to be just the backend including some optimizations.

I still don't really get from there how it compares to GCC or LLVM.

Strange: neither http://www.open64.net/ nor the main page of wiki.open64.net mentions anywhere that it's a C compiler (at least, that's what I infer; it's not mentioned explicitly as far as I see)