Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:05:09 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Producing non-GPLed tools for FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.1.19981019150118.06775920@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <98Oct19.164437edt.37814-9002@qew.cs.toronto.edu> References: <4.1.19981019000937.06571220@mail.lariat.org>
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At 04:44 PM 10/19/98 -0400, David Holland wrote: >There are a lot of people in various places interested in building a >replacement toolchain. At least some of the ones I know of would be >amenable to a non-GPL effort. > >How serious are you about this? I've already written several assemblers. Wouldn't be hard to do it again. (I'm an assembly language fiend, and so have come up with some pretty sophisticated tools for it -- including some fancy analysis tools that use Prolog and extensive backward chaining.) I've also written my own HLLs, with really fast recursive descent (not shift/reduce, as they teach in school) compilers. Most, alas, were for PC-DOS, but the experience would be useful. I'd need to learn the curses library to bring over the screen-oriented tools. >BTW, the gnu binutils source is horribly disgusting and you couldn't >possibly learn anything by looking at it. :-/ So I've heard. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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