Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the all-good-things-must-end dept.

Sunnz writes "The leaner, lighter, faster, and most importantly, BSD Licensed, Compiler PCC has been imported into OpenBSD's CVS and NetBSD's pkgsrc. The compiler is based on the original Portable C Compiler by S. C. Johnson, written in the late 70's. Even though much of the compiler has been rewritten, some of the basics still remain. It is currently not bug-free, but it compiles on x86 platform, and work is being done on it to take on GCC's job."

1 of 546 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The licence is just the top of the iceberg by tknd · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "- The whole design of GCC is perverted so that someone cannot easily extract a front-end or back-end. This is broken by design, as the GPL people do believe this would make it easier for commercial entities to `steal' a front-end or back-end and attach it to a proprietary code-generator (or language). This is probably true. This also makes it impossible to write interesting tools, such as intermediate analyzers. This also makes it impossible to plug old legacy back-ends for old architectures into newer compilers."

    Well that explains a lot. And here I was thinking that all modern compilers were designed correctly with a front-end and back-end. So much for academics.