1 Mar
2025
1 Mar
'25
10:07 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
<lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
segaloco via TUHS writes:
I believe that was in the shift to Solaris, aka SunOS 5.x. As I
recall, even the last versions of SunOS 4 came with a bundled compiler
(though it was pre-ANSI, and probably PCC based).
- Dan C.
Given that anything that obeys the ABI and has
assembler entries to the ker=
nel
can request services, it seems to me it would be possible to stand up a
user-land without C being present. Have any UNIXen ever done this after th=
e
advent of C?
SunOS 4.0 or 4.1 was when the Sun geniouses unbundled the C compiler
and made it a $$$ add on. That move single-handedly made GCC the
reference compiler moving forward.