1 Mar
2023
1 Mar
'23
4:02 a.m.
On Feb 28, 2023, at 8:35 PM, Dan Cross
<crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 9:07 PM Ronald Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
It may be that Metaware was available for AIX on the RT, but, if so, not bundled with AIX.
AIX 1 releases bundled a fairly vanilla pcc as provided by ISC. AIX 2 releases bundled pcc
with the HCR optimization phase added. I’m not sure about AIX 3 and beyond, since I left
before they were released. The “strategic” plan was a reimplementation of the PL.8
compiler as a C compiler with the work done by an IBM group in Toronto. I suspect that was
extra cost option and that pcc with HCR was still bundled in the base. I have the
impression that AOS (BSD for RT) eventually also included the HCR phase. See
https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2017/03/08/lets-start-at-the-very-beg…
for more context. CHS
--
voice: +1.512.784.7526 e-mail: sauer(a)technologists.com
<mailto:sauer@technologists.com>
fax: +1.512.346.5240 web: https://technologists.com/sauer/
<http://technologists.com/sauer/>
Facebook/Google/LinkedIn/Twitter: CharlesHSauer
[snip]
At least it didn’t come with a prayer book like the Metalware compiler (which really
needed all the divine intervention that it could get).
Was that the one that shipped with the IBM RT? Is it just my
imagination or did some of the error messages contain biblical
references?
- Dan C.