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Diving Into GCC: OpenBSD and m88k

Posted by michael on from the swimming-pool-filled-with-double-edged-razor-blades dept.

BSD Forums writes "This OnLamp article by Miod Vallat describes how the m88k-specific backend of the GNU C compiler, gcc, was fixed, from the discovery and analysis of the problems to the real fixing work. Since it started with almost zero gcc internals knowledge, it should be understandable by anyone able to read C code, and proves that diving into gcc is not as hard as one could imagine."

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  1. Re:Oh, catch the hell up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Ever since Red Hat bought Cygnus, GCC is in effect a Red Hat Linux product. Most of the significant development on GCC is performed by Red Hat Linux employees. Therefore OpenBSD is a [possibly illegitimate] offspring of Red Hat. And of course, GCC is under copyright by our good friends at Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation (home of GNU).

    It is interesting to note that every OpenBSD software, including OpenBSD itself, requires a Red Hat product, in fact owes its practical existence to Red Hat GCC.