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From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] pcc in 8th edition
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:54:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W4L1zAK_169KVaKiq0X7byuLwre+KPT7wHfXzqqcA75-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210425204842.3FAC4640CB6@lignose.oclsc.org>

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I seem to recall that LCC was also used, at least on 10th Ed. Am I
imagining things, or was that real?

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 4:51 PM Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:

> I was waiting to see whether Steve Johnson would speak
> up, because I'm not much of an expert; but yes, the VAX
> C compiler in V8/V9/V10 is pcc2.
>
> I think there are a few Research-specific hacks to add
> additional stab info for pi(9.1) and on request insert
> basic-block profiling for lcomp(1), but nothing major.
>
> Maybe we did some hacking on c2 as well.  I know I did
> a lot of c2 cleanup later in my personal hacking in
> Toronto, but I don't think I did much if any in New
> Jersey.  But that's independent of the compiler (modulo,
> I think, some of my later fixes discovered by using c2
> with a different compiler).
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-25 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-25 20:48 Norman Wilson
2021-04-25 20:54 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2021-04-26  6:29 ` Noel Hunt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-04-26 18:00 Norman Wilson
2021-04-26 18:11 ` Dan Cross
2021-04-25 22:02 Norman Wilson
2021-04-26  0:18 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-04-26 16:51 ` Adam Thornton
2021-04-25 12:35 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-04-25 12:49 ` arnold
2021-04-25 14:04   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2021-04-25 15:45   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2021-04-25 17:11     ` Clem Cole
2021-04-25 17:32       ` arnold
2021-04-25 17:46         ` Clem Cole
2021-04-25 20:11       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2021-04-30 23:08       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2021-04-25  9:15 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS

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