Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: 80386 C compiler Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:49:58 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 37 Message-ID: <87a5dmlsy1.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <87ed2zkls2.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 01:50:00 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b8ed4fba96f7c888069140f3cefc44ea"; logging-data="3268450"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/jPnAGY8EwI1/OJQ+kgpMT" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EZX98iH4/xb4LAczF/4rTGdtWV8= sha1:kTNyDQ2a55NG0mehyxOEGvvikqU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:389100 Lynn McGuire writes: > On 11/25/2024 4:10 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: >> Lynn McGuire writes: >>> On 11/24/2024 8:00 AM, Paul Edwards wrote: >>>> I have been after a public domain C compiler for decades. >> [...] >>> Did you look at the Open Watcom compilers: C, C++, and F77 ? >>> https://openwatcom.org/ >>> >>> Open Watcom has many modes of compilation: 8086, 80286, 80386, etc. >> Open Watcom's compilers are not public domain, so they don't meet >> Paul's (rather odd) requirements. > > Are you sure about the public domain thing ? The license is here: > http://openwatcom.org/ftp/install/license.txt Yes, I'm sure that that's a license that imposes some restrictions. It's not public domain. Just one example: """ You must retain and reproduce in all copies of Original Code the copyright and other proprietary notices and disclaimers of Sybase as they appear in the Original Code, and keep intact all notices in the Original Code that refer to this License; """ Anything that's public domain has no copyright. Why do you ask? [...] -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */