Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:22:57 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jef53313@bayou.uh.edu Subject: Re: Why gcc is the system's compiler. Message-ID: <199902281922.OAA23087@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902281231270.32373-100000@dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu>
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> > I have recently been wodering why FreeBSD uses gcc as the system compiler > as opposed to whatever compiler came out of CSRG. Did that compiler have > to be removed as a result of the lawsuit, or was it simply too old to be > worth updating. Not to knock gcc, but I, as I believe many people think, > would rather the base distribution be all BSD tools, or at least have a > Berkeley style license. I believe the compiler was owned by AT&T... If if remember correctly, though, the Pascal compiler was from Berkely... but it re-used a good portion of the C compiler... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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