GCC has built in support for compiling Go

[tambourine_man]

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html#go

[fafner]

GCC 4.6 (the version with Go support) was released in March 2011!

[elcct → fafner]

Which is 4 years ago if I am correct

[techdragon]

Yeah, it has support. But how good is the support?

I recently had to investigate cross compiling some go software on 64bit Arm v8 and 64bit Power8 little endian.

GCC works on these platforms and gccgo works on these platforms, but Go is not just Go it seems, theres all the other little tools involved in a modern Go program.

Try and compile something like Docker, Fleet, Etcd, Consul, or any other complex Go program somewhere that gcc & gccgo work fine, and you will find some rather large holes in the notion that GCC has 'built in support'.

[limsup]

anyone know recent performance numbers of gccgo vs the go compiler?

[gumby → limsup]

Sorry I am not answering your question but I wanted to point out that the gccgo work is also being done at Google so isn't a second class citizen.

[techdragon → limsup]

Screw performance numbers, how about basic compatibility testing?