2 Mar
2025
2 Mar
'25
1:17 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 02:01:11PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 01:51:29PM -0800, Lyndon
Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
The funny thing was that somewhere around then Sun Labs was paying Micheal
Tiemann to make g++ work. With a deal that let him retain the rights to
the code. I never understood that, one hand wants to charge for cc and
the other hand is paying for free g++? The ways of Sun could be strange.
segaloco via TUHS writes:
I think that OP was asking about a userland compiled with Pascal or Go
or Rust, anything other than C.
I don't think it was a question of commercial C or Gcc (I agree that it
was a bonehead move on Sun's part). 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.