From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:41:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8C658B06-38FA-4A95-81FB-6B8FA82487F2@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <329F60E1-F6CA-444F-86C2-C86B6A07F882@orthanc.ca>
> I have fond memories of threatining the Sun sales sloths with death
> and worse if they didn't at least ship .h files after they
> unbundled the C compiler. Sun is as responsible for GCC as the
> AT&T lawyers are responsible for Linux.
Ignoring the lawyers, gcc out-ran all of the Sun compilers for
years. It wasn't until ~2001 when I saw demonstrable proof that the
Sun compilers were ready to outrun the GNU bloatationiousness. But
meanwhile, Sun's hubris lead to others not only unbundling, but
actually spending that money on compiler design! I still love the
mipsco compilers that quote chapter and verse of the ANSI spec. And
they worked even before DEC got MIPSed. Oh wait, that was the
*other* DEC CPU. (6,7,8,10,VAX,MIPS,???) Still, the compiler worked
across all of them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-26 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-25 13:56 Russ Cox
2006-03-25 19:48 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-25 19:53 ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-25 19:59 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-25 20:02 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-25 21:25 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-25 21:28 ` quanstro
2006-03-25 21:33 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-25 22:42 ` quanstro
2006-03-25 22:46 ` quanstro
2006-03-26 1:46 ` jmk
2006-03-26 2:52 ` quanstro
2006-03-26 8:14 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-26 8:41 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2006-03-26 17:06 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-26 17:00 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-27 17:31 ` rog
2006-03-27 19:01 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-27 19:15 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-03-27 19:21 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-30 17:41 ` rog
2006-03-30 17:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-30 18:24 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-30 17:51 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-03-30 17:54 ` Sape Mullender
2006-03-30 18:30 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-30 18:43 ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-30 18:48 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-30 18:51 ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-30 18:51 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-30 21:00 ` Bakul Shah
2006-03-30 23:16 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-30 23:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 6:16 ` uriel
2006-03-31 7:56 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 9:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-30 23:32 ` Adrian Tritschler
2006-03-30 17:57 ` rog
2006-03-30 18:27 ` rog
2006-03-30 20:46 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-03-31 1:15 ` Steve Simon
2006-03-31 1:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-31 2:00 ` Joel Salomon
2006-03-31 2:26 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-03-31 8:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 8:49 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 21:40 ` Taj Khattra
2006-03-31 4:24 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-31 4:33 ` veritosproject
2006-03-30 17:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-30 18:03 ` jmk
2006-03-30 18:13 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-30 18:57 ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-30 19:15 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 19:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-30 19:29 ` Rob Pike
2006-03-30 19:58 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-28 0:30 erik quanstrom
2006-03-28 0:40 erik quanstrom
2006-03-28 17:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-28 18:15 ` Bakul Shah
2006-03-28 18:29 ` Sape Mullender
2006-03-28 18:52 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-28 19:15 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 16:33 ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 21:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-03-29 21:44 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-04-02 18:17 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-04-02 18:33 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-02 19:47 ` lucio
2006-04-02 20:12 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-02 20:16 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-04-03 4:35 ` lucio
2006-04-03 5:38 ` George Michaelson
2006-04-03 6:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-03 5:38 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-04-03 8:31 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-03 9:36 ` uriel
2006-04-03 12:50 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-04-03 9:39 ` lucio
2006-04-03 13:46 ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-03 14:30 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-03 16:02 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-03 20:41 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-03 21:02 ` uriel
2006-04-03 21:32 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-03 23:42 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04 0:29 ` Anthony Sorace
2006-04-04 5:02 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04 3:15 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-04 3:28 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-04 6:31 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-04 4:21 ` lucio
2006-04-05 1:00 ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-05 4:35 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04 12:31 ` rog
2006-04-03 3:17 ` plan9
2006-04-03 4:17 ` lucio
2006-03-29 1:18 erik quanstrom
2006-03-30 20:14 Steve Simon
2006-03-31 9:17 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2006-03-31 9:40 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 9:42 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 9:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 9:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 9:48 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 9:56 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 10:01 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 10:03 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 10:08 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 14:58 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-31 15:01 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 22:02 ` Taj Khattra
2006-04-03 16:21 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-03 17:17 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-04-03 19:01 ` Artem Letko
2006-04-03 19:22 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-03-31 12:31 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2006-03-31 12:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 13:23 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 14:42 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 13:27 erik quanstrom
2006-03-31 14:47 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 14:42 erik quanstrom
2006-04-03 22:54 erik quanstrom
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