Possible Virus from AT&T cc

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From: David J. Camp
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1991 17:12

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I have heard a story that a programmer at AT&T placed a virus in the
cc compiler.  It would detect when cc itself was being compiled and
reproduce itself.  I do not remember what it does to the rest of the
system, but there was mention of a Happy Birthday greeting for the
author.  

It is possible that gcc is infected with this virus.  It is routinely
compiled with the AT&T compiler.  Perhaps we need one assembler
version of the C compiler, to bootstrap the others.  -David-

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