1 Mar
2025
1 Mar
'25
9:51 p.m.
segaloco via TUHS writes:
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.
--lyndon