Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:15:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: free C compiler? (was RE: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104190009370.17317-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <006601c0c89c$9b9a2dc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Now, different _applications_ in the distribution are a different matter - > in my opinion the C compiler (gcc) is probably one of the biggest problems, > kind of like the pink elephant that everyone pretends isn't there. It's > a shame because at one time BSD did have it's own C compiler. I don't know > if it > ever crossed over into the FreeBSD distribution but I've always thought it a > shame that we have to depend on GNU software for this task. Any ideas where I can find a working free (maybe BSD-licensed) C compiler? Preprocessor? Assembler? Linker? I'd be glad to use a free cc to build my own projects and try to build parts of a BSD source tree. (It looks like 386bsd and I think 4.4BSD-Lite uses gcc.) Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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