From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:55:05 -0500 From: plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Fortran Message-ID: <20071114165505.GA7883@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> References: <3765BCC5-FB7A-4BD6-BC88-5AA8A146E4A5@orthanc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Topicbox-Message-UUID: f94ecfa8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:52:55PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > wow! if they'd never taken the c compiler out of solaris, > do you think gcc would have gotten where it did? (way OT at this point...) Probably. Face it, Sun's bundled cc was only there to relink the kernel after diddling ("tuning") its constants. Optimization was not its strong suit. We were already using gcc in preference to cc long before Solaris 2.0, especially on other bloatware like X. The only thing cc was good for by then was bootstrapping gcc. Man, you've gotten me all weepy for gcc 1.x. How sick is that?