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| Re: GCC is 25 years old today cr88192@hotmail.com (BGB) (2012-03-29) |
| Re: GCC is 25 years old today DrDiettrich1@aol.com (Hans-Peter Diettrich) (2012-03-30) |
| Re: GCC is 25 years old today mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov) (2012-03-30) |
| Re: GCC is 25 years old today cr88192@hotmail.com (BGB) (2012-03-30) |
| Re: GCC is 25 years old today cr88192@hotmail.com (BGB) (2012-03-30) |
| Re: GCC is 25 years old today anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (2012-03-31) |
| Re: GCC is 25 years old today jgk@panix.com (2012-04-01) |
| Re: GCC is 25 years old today mevermeulen@gmail.com (mev) (2012-04-01) |
| Re: GCC is 25 years old today prenom_nomus@yahoo.com (Marco) (2012-04-01) |
| Re: GCC is 25 years old today rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de (Georg Bauhaus) (2012-04-12) |
| From: | jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Sun, 1 Apr 2012 01:05:03 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization: | Public Access Networks Corp. |
| References: | 12-03-051 12-03-053 12-03-062 |
| Keywords: | GCC, history, comment |
| Posted-Date: | 31 Mar 2012 21:15:40 EDT |
In article 12-03-062,
[moderator] wrote:
>[I think it's fair to say that GCC was the first free compiler that
>generated code competitive with commercial compilers. -John]
I think i could make a fair argument for PCC.
And with Unix they say: of course; the compiler is part of the operating
system; who in the hell would not do that?
[Having looked at PCC in considerable detail, I can say that it generated
adequate code for a PDP-11, lousy code for a Vax or anything else with a
lot of registers. It treated the registers as a stack, and the only
way a value got saved in a register was either an explicit register
declaration, or some very simple peephole optimizations. -John]
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