Re: GCC is 25 years old today

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In article <12-03-062@comp.compilers>,
[moderator] wrote:
>[I think it's fair to say that GCC was the first free compiler that
>generated code competitive with commercial compilers. -John]

I think i could make a fair argument for PCC.

And with Unix they say: of course; the compiler is part of the operating
system; who in the hell would not do that?
[Having looked at PCC in considerable detail, I can say that it generated
adequate code for a PDP-11, lousy code for a Vax or anything else with a
lot of registers.  It treated the registers as a stack, and the only
way a value got saved in a register was either an explicit register
declaration, or some very simple peephole optimizations. -John]

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GCC is 25 years old today Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-22 22:29 +0000
  Re: GCC is 25 years old today BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-24 08:44 -0700
    Re: GCC is 25 years old today "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-03-26 11:00 +0200
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          Re: GCC is 25 years old today BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-30 13:33 -0700
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        Re: GCC is 25 years old today mev <mevermeulen@gmail.com> - 2012-04-01 06:20 -0700
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