Compiling with another compiler than gcc.

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 08:38:35PM +0200, Hartmut Brandt wrote..
> Anders Magnusson wrote:
> >It is not yet bug-free, but it can compile the i386 userspace.  The big 
> >benefit of it
> >(apart from that it's BSD licensed, for license geeks :-) is that it is 
> >fast, 5-10 times
> >faster than gcc, while still producing reasonable code.  The only 
> 
> When reading the name pcc my first thought was: isn't that the compiler 
> that was distributed on later Unix V7 tapes? And yes, the web-page says 
> it is based on that one. I'm quite sure that the original code had no 
> BSD copyright, so I wonder how it obtained one? For the rewritten code 
> there is no question, but what for the remaining original code? Has it 
> been relicensed by the original author?
> 
> It's interesting that the compiler is so much faster than gcc. I 
> remember that it was around 3-5 times slower than the dmr compiler under 
> V7. This tells a lot about gcc's speed :-(

Wanna try if that is still the case?  I can drag the uPDP 11/73 from my
basement.  2BSD on it and all that.

8-)

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org