On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM Greg A. Woods <woods@robohack.ca> wrote:

Which reminds me, wasn't there was some mention of difficulties with
Pascal et al w.r.t. separate compilation earlier in this thread....
Wasn't that one of the features of Berkeley Pascal?

Yes - had extensions for that so: compiling to *.o and using external libraries was possible.

man pc will describe the -c switch pc was the hooks into the pcc system for the vax, but I'm not sure if it was backported the PDP-11. It was moved to the 68k by a couple different teams, including Sun for SunOS. Maybe Larry or Rob G can answer if they ever moved it to SPARC. By that time, they had there own compiler suite and may have started to abandon anything based on pcc.