From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 19 0:15:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [63.145.197.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8785237B422 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:15:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14q8ew-0005ae-00; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:15:22 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:15:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: free C compiler? (was RE: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: <006601c0c89c$9b9a2dc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Now, different _applications_ in the distribution are a different matter - > in my opinion the C compiler (gcc) is probably one of the biggest problems, > kind of like the pink elephant that everyone pretends isn't there. It's > a shame because at one time BSD did have it's own C compiler. I don't know > if it > ever crossed over into the FreeBSD distribution but I've always thought it a > shame that we have to depend on GNU software for this task. Any ideas where I can find a working free (maybe BSD-licensed) C compiler? Preprocessor? Assembler? Linker? I'd be glad to use a free cc to build my own projects and try to build parts of a BSD source tree. (It looks like 386bsd and I think 4.4BSD-Lite uses gcc.) Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message