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- From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: ACK ANSI Compiler
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 00:24:38 +0100
- Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
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- Message-ID: <9301053651@gandalf.moria>
- References: <1993Jan3.115527.11032@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
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- In article <1993Jan3.115527.11032@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
- > The only people I see using the new ANSI compiler extensively would be
- > people with old PC/XT's, and if they can put up with that kind of
- > hardware, thay should certainly be able to put up with an older release
- > of the compiler as well (*). It's not as if you could port many
- > standard unix programs to a 64+64kB machine anyway, so the lack of ANSI
- > shouldn't be that bad an experience: you'd just have to write your
- > programs using K&R.
- >
- > Linus
- >
- > (*) It's a joke guys. Well, mostly. Tongue in cheek, you know.
-
- I wonder why unproto isn't used more. It does a pretty good job, at
- least the rc shell compiled using it on 16 bit Minix. You don't need
- _PROTOTYPE at all. Once someone posted diffs for an improved cc.c which
- had flags for using unproto and the floating point converter, so setting
- a flag in the makefile is all. It doesn't give you a true ANSI
- compiler (with paying much money), but an ANSIfied k&r compiler with
- floating point (and not spending any money).
-
- For some things you need BCC, they don't compile using ACK. It is also
- a lot faster. In some points it was better than ACK, in some ACK won.
- Having both is easier for porting software.
-
- And when things get tough, (true ANSI C or binary gets 70k with BCC and
- ACK says cg: bombed out), try Turbo C 2.0. I used it once for several
- things, and crosscompiling isn't difficult. Optimise AUTOEXEC.BAT and
- /etc/rc for fast booting, and you don't get gray hairs, especially
- because it compiles pretty fast.
-
- Michael "thinks back of the old times"
-
- PS: Did nobody archive the flame war last time? I already saw an offer
- for "Minix vs. Linux" as compressed tape archive, what about this
- thread?
-