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GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC?
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."
I guess the question should be whether this compiler produces applications that crash less. In my experience, the crashes in current Linux applications are due to in large part, to GCC, though code quality also has something to do with these crashes.
You do realize that GCC was a duplication of effort? If it wasn't for licensing obsessives you'd still be using PCC right now.
Not really. FSF has shown beyond reasonable doubt that they will change the terms of their license according to their whim and to suit their agenda without any regard whatsoever to their user and developer base, at the drop of a hat and without listening to valid criticism. I have no doubt they will do it again. In their power-hungry madness they will try to force their users into complete slavery, and I believe GCC will be one of the first instruments to their supposed rise to world domination - only it will bring about their destruction when everybody but the most foaming-at-the-mouth-zealots moves on to serious OSs and lets FSF and their EFFing lackeys dwindle away into irrelevance.
Aplogies for the tone of utter disgust and somewhat unexplainable epic. The first is inspired by your reference to Stallman. The second, I just felt like trying on for size.
Global warming is a cube.
"Main difference between the BSD license and the GPL license: one is from California and the other is from Massachusetts"
The more I read about GPL v3, the more poisonous and viral it appears to be. Overall, the BSD and MIT licenses appear to be the most reasonable. The revival of PCC is a direct response to GPL v3 since GCC (and much of the software hosted at FSF) will more than likely migrate to GPL v3, which seems to make many of the BSD folks quite nervous.