5 Mar
2025
5 Mar
'25
6:01 a.m.
On Mar 1, 2025, at 1:51 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca>
wrote:
segaloco via TUHS writes:
SunOS still included their K&R compiler for kernel tuning, as well as all of the
header files. It was both sufficient for hacking and sufficient for bootstrapping GCC if
you needed an ANSI compiler.
-- Chris
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.