21 Feb
2020
21 Feb
'20
4:17 p.m.
"Thomas Paulsen" <thomas.paulsen(a)firemail.de> wrote:
It was PCC based. Once PCC became available with V7, it was used
for porting pretty universally. The 'P' stood for "portable" after
all;
it was explicitly designed for retargeting.
Arnold
SunOS's
compiler that shipped with it wasn't that usable. It didn't
fully support the C standards at the time.
It was used primarily for two things....
*) To bootstrap GCC so one had a usable compiler to build packages.
so this can only be true for later not to say final days of sun-o2,
as gcc wasn't available before.
Was it Stephen's pcc or Dennis CC?