1 Mar
2023
1 Mar
'23
10:02 a.m.
I used BSD/RT and I don't recall anything that good and my C is pretty
terrible: if there were biblical error codes I would have expected to
tickle them.
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 1:02 PM Charles H. Sauer <sauer(a)technologists.com> wrote:
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:
[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.
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
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