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Subject: Re: [9fans] fast compilers
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Tue,  8 Apr 2003 02:14:10 -0400
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> | I should note, however, that building compilers akin to Plan 9's C
> | compiler shouldn't really be too hard; why hasn't anyone done it yet?
>
> Does lcc qualify?
>  http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/

lcc is very nice, but was ham-strung for many years by lack of a `long
long' type.  Lcc 4 fixes that, but the license terms are even worse
than for gcc.

	- Dan C.