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- From: shebs@apple.com (Stan Shebs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Sozobon (or other free C's): would this strategy work?
- Message-ID: <shebs-060193094722@delos.apple.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:09:08 GMT
- References: <29879@castle.ed.ac.uk> <C0E7xv.A57@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C0E7xv.A57@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, e-sink@uiuc.edu (Eric W. Sink)
- wrote:
- > Someone else (sorry, forgot the name) countered the post with "Why not
- > port Gcc?" Good points there too. But how easy is GCC to port, really?...
- >
- > Hard. Stan Shebs and Co. have been working on porting gcc 2.x for quite
- > a while now.
-
- Actually, the 2.1 port works right now! It has got some problems and
- limitations, which have to be cleaned up before we're willing to unleash
- it on an unsuspecting public. I always live in fear that some enraged
- developer, after spending three days hunting down a bug that turned out
- to be the compiler's fault, will come looking for me...
-
- Personally, I would like to see a small free C compiler for the Mac.
- It might be worthwhile to investigate a "GCC Lite" that omits a bunch
- of optimizations, perhaps streamlines some of the obscure machine
- description stuff, and outputs straight into an in-core assembler.
- You could cut its static size in half, probably speed it up by a
- factor of four or more perhaps. Past that, you'd have to think about
- stripping the nice error messages and suchlike, seems like even
- amateurs would be willing to pay a bit extra in memory to get
- better error messages.
-
- Stan Shebs
- ATG System Software
- shebs@apple.com
-