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Article #30394Re: LightspeedC 3.0 Review (long)
From: Pierce T. Wetter
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1988 19:09
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1988 19:09
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>Yup, GNU CC is _very_ good! And it's free!
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>Is there anybody interested in porting it to the Mac?
>I suspect there might be a big problem in object file format, etc.
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The problems with porting Gnu C are as follows:
1: Add the Pascal keywoard for talking to C programs.
i 1a: add the \p escape.
2: Make doubles 80 bits longs (90 for 68881)
3: Richard Stallman thinks Apple is the AntiChrist
Problems 1 and 2 are not insurmountable, if you have the time. I have ported
bison to MPW already (Gnu's yacc clone). 3: is irrelevant.
However, one advantage of porting Gnu CC, besides the fact that its a good
compiler, is that a Gnu C++ port is trivial after that.
So i'll make someone a deal. They port Gnu CC, and I will give them advice
and I will port Gnu C++, and GnuChess.
Pierce
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!elroy!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!wetter From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: LightspeedC 3.0 Review (long) Message-ID: <7366@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 21 Jul 88 19:09:42 GMT References: <7215@cup.portal.com> <76000259@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <14606@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 26