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Article #74267Re: Money for GCC - porting ??
From: Joseph Edward Hummel
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 18:39
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 18:39
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In article <5350@ztivax.UUCP> sof3@ztivax.UUCP (Walter Meyer) writes: >> geissler@D012S050@ap542.uucp (Norbert Geissler): >> > the facts: >> > I wanted to get a port of GCC from a company which ported it to the >> > same type of machine I am using. >> > Porting is not trivial, because as far as I know, there are at least >> > alignment problems between code generator and machine assembler. >> > I got the answer, that I can get this GCC if I pay(!) for the effort they >> > had to do the porting. I'm a newcomer to GNU, so I'm confused about this last statement. Can someone charge a non-trivial fee for porting GCC? I thought only fees related to copying the software could be charged. Can someone clarify? Thanks. - joe hummel -- Joe Hummel ICS Graduate Student, UC Irvine Internet: jhummel@ics.uci.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,8f0403173f62c1e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-05-29 16:26:43 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!jhummel From: jhummel@wave.ics.uci.edu (Joseph Edward Hummel) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Money for GCC - porting ?? Message-ID: <2843F55A.21400@ics.uci.edu> Date: 29 May 91 18:39:22 GMT References: <1991Apr25.210651.4210@digi.lonestar.org> <5350@ztivax.UUCP> Reply-To: jhummel@ics.uci.edu (Joseph Edward Hummel) Distribution: gnu Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: wave.ics.uci.edu