From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 8:40: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.87.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93AD737B42C for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu.mdacc.tmc.edu (jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.64.202]) by mail.mdanderson.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA11860; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:36:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14791.35019.592000.550009@jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:39:55 -0500 (GMT-6:00) To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lcc compiler vs gcc In-Reply-To: <20000919160654.A70874@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000919160654.A70874@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * j mckitrick writes: > Is there any reason we might consider allowing different basic compiler > types, or would this just be far too complicated? > What about lcc? Is it anywhere near useable for heavy-duty OS work? lcc 3.x doesn't work on FBSD due to one type we have that wasn't allowed when 3.x was written. I have an (open?) pr about about getting 4.1 to work that is about 1-2 years old now. I can build it but it dumps core when I try to use it. Major plus to lcc is that it is !GPL and it is ansi by default (IIRC). -- Jonathan Fosburgh Open Systems Communications and Computer Services UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message