From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 5 3: 6: 8 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 03:06:06 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com [155.208.254.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F95037B400 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 03:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (hpcpbla.bri.hp.com [15.144.112.65]) by bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF921FE8F; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 12:05:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from sse0691.bri.hp.com (sse0691.bri.hp.com [15.144.0.53]) by hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id LAA22186; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:05:52 GMT Received: (from steve@localhost) by sse0691.bri.hp.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eB5BAPF25964; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:10:25 GMT (envelope-from steve) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:10:25 +0000 From: Steve Roome To: Donn Miller Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lint Message-ID: <20001205111025.I22946@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <20001204222001.A25490@mmap.nyct.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from dmmiller@cvzoom.net on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:20:52AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:20:52AM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: > I've always wondered what happened to the old BSD compiler. From what I > understand, it falls under AT&T licensing. But, you're right. I believe > a lot of universities (at least Penn State does) offer courses in > "compiler design and implentation". There ya go. It's a good topic for a > master's or PhD thesis, plus you could implement a new compiler to boot. I assume most university compiler design courses are about the same: We did a compiler course in our final year at Uni. It was supposed to be a group project to write a simple pascal type compiler, I wrote the entire thing myself, another team member did the documentation, and a third one did nothing. It took ages, it got one of the highest marks on the course. In comparison to a real-world compiler, It was a complete load of junk. Maybe as a PhD though, but it's not really new groundbreaking research in computer science is it, sounds like a hard slog to me. Unless the PhD side deals with register/memory type optimizations in some new and original way. No doubt there's hundreds of people who subscribe to these lists who think it's a remarkably simple job, and then they'll be those who think it's hard but acheivable. I think it would, in reality require a lot of very clued up people working closely together for an indefinite period of time. A bit like some folks who have been writing something called gcc for a while now. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message