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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!cygnus.com!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: Berkeley Free CC? (Was: Re: Slight flame from Linux user) Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <D9vno8.BH@kithrup.com> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <MMEAD.95Jun6155230@hq.ctr.vt.edu> <3r595f$h9t@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3r7jvu$8bv@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 23:24:08 GMT Lines: 17 In article <3r7jvu$8bv@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@waldorf-gmbh.de> wrote: >There is yet another free compiler available (from my news article collection): >> There is a compiler named lcc, which you can get from ftp.cs.princeton.edu >> in pub/packages/lcc, that is ANSI compliant and is considerably smaller >> than gcc. lcc is even less distributable than gcc is, and cannot be safely distributed by anyone make CD-ROMs (or anyone making *any* money distributing). Yes, it's considerably smaller than gcc, and it also generates pretty bad code. (Well, okay, not *bad*, just not optimized much, if at all.) lcc is useful for two things: it's a lot faster than gcc, and there is a version of lint based on it. However, the rather-restrictive license that comes with it makes it safer for me to avoid it.