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- From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
- Subject: Re: Public Domain C Compiler?
- In-Reply-To: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu's message of 6 Jan 1993 21: 11:46 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:08:40 GMT
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- Joe Buck writes:
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- The question was about public domain compilers;
-
- That's the subject line. My response was for a *different* statement by
- M. Castle, not to Chip's original query. lcc is a fast, readable ansi-C
- front end. It also happens to be free, but not PD.
-
- as your posting makes
- clear, LCC isn't even freely distributable.
-
- No, the lcc front end is freely distributable, in any sense of the term
- free as understood by the regular readers of this newsgroup.
-
- ... As for your claim that
- LCC optimizes as well as or better than GCC, this may be true...
-
- I remember seeing a sigplan paper. Feel free to ask Chris Fraser if you
- are that interested.
-
- And take a look at this:
-
- [part about licensing the code generators elided]
-
- Even if a university executes a license, the most interesting part of
- the compiler for those who would port to new platforms is not available.
-
- That's just one set of back-ends. Having looked at PO some years ago, I
- suspect that it wouldn't be too difficult to make it work with LCC, and
- other back-ends may be in the works. In other words, a freer C compiler
- as an alternative to GCC is not as far away as as most people may think.
-
- oz
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