Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 17:18:47 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: nate@sneezy.sri.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user Message-ID: <9506082318.AA27570@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199506081836.MAA02704@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jun 8, 95 12:36:00 pm
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> >] GCC is a different story since there is (to my knowledge) no free > >] Berkeley licensed compiler. > > > >There is. It's just not hosted on as many platforms. There some > >indication that it produces tighter code (at least that's been > >reported to be the case) than GCC. > > Which compiler is this? I haven't seen any announcements for lcc, and > it was the only compiler I was aware of (though it had licensing > restrictions more restrictive than the GPL) A lot of people (all on the hackers list, a far as I can tell) have asked this question. The URL that answers it is: http://cuiwww.unige.ch/cgi-bin/freecomp The "Free Compilers and Interpreters Catalog". I believe the one that struct the cord in my memory was the Purdue compiler. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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