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GCC is 25 years old today

Started by	Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
First post	2012-03-22 22:29 +0000
Last post	2012-04-01 08:24 -0700
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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
        Re: GCC is 25 years old today compilers@is-not-my.name - 2012-03-27 09:27 +0000
          Re: GCC is 25 years old today "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-03-28 16:38 +0200
            Re: GCC is 25 years old today compilers@is-not-my.name - 2012-03-29 12:30 +0000
              Re: GCC is 25 years old today "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-03-30 09:58 +0200
              Re: GCC is 25 years old today Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> - 2012-04-12 15:07 +0200
          Re: GCC is 25 years old today BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-28 13:46 -0700
      Re: GCC is 25 years old today glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-28 13:33 +0000
      Re: GCC is 25 years old today Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-28 16:47 +0100
        Re: GCC is 25 years old today Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2012-03-29 15:03 +0200
        Re: GCC is 25 years old today Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.net> - 2012-03-29 09:17 -0500
          Re: GCC is 25 years old today BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-30 14:58 -0700
        Re: GCC is 25 years old today BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-29 09:48 -0700
          Re: GCC is 25 years old today Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2012-03-30 10:58 +0200
            Re: GCC is 25 years old today BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-30 13:33 -0700
              Re: target platforms and .NET, was GCC is 25 years old today BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-31 13:08 -0700
        Re: GCC is 25 years old today anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-03-31 14:02 +0000
          Re: GCC is 25 years old today mev <mevermeulen@gmail.com> - 2012-04-01 06:20 -0700
        Re: GCC is 25 years old today jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-04-01 01:05 +0000
    Re: GCC is 25 years old today Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-01 08:24 -0700

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From	jgk@panix.com (Joe keane)
Date	2012-04-01 01:05 +0000
Message-ID	<12-03-076@comp.compilers>
In reply to	#529

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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From	Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>
Date	2012-04-01 08:24 -0700
Message-ID	<12-04-004@comp.compilers>
In reply to	#518

On Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:29:17 PM UTC-7, Rui Maciel wrote:

> In your views, what has been GCC's main contribution to the world of
> compilers?

  It set the bar higher for compiler quality.

  We now purchase compilers and associated environments when they have significant added value over GCC.

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