From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 16:25:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA01888 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:25:37 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA01881 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 16:25:35 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA27570; Thu, 8 Jun 95 17:18:48 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9506082318.AA27570@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user To: nate@sneezy.sri.com Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 17:18:47 MDT Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506081836.MAA02704@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jun 8, 95 12:36:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >] GCC is a different story since there is (to my knowledge) no free > >] Berkeley licensed compiler. > > > >There is. It's just not hosted on as many platforms. There some > >indication that it produces tighter code (at least that's been > >reported to be the case) than GCC. > > Which compiler is this? I haven't seen any announcements for lcc, and > it was the only compiler I was aware of (though it had licensing > restrictions more restrictive than the GPL) A lot of people (all on the hackers list, a far as I can tell) have asked this question. The URL that answers it is: http://cuiwww.unige.ch/cgi-bin/freecomp The "Free Compilers and Interpreters Catalog". I believe the one that struct the cord in my memory was the Purdue compiler. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.