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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.rediris.es!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!hsu From: hsu@alumni.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: lcc ported to FreeBSD? Date: 7 Aug 1995 20:55:22 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 26 Message-ID: <405ujq$hpp@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3vst5f$moo@gisli.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> <kargl-0408950910050001@mac-pal.apl.washington.edu> <400l1t$kij@marina.cinenet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.eecs.berkeley.edu >>In article <400l1t$kij@marina.cinenet.net>, >>Bob Mercier <mercier@cinenet.net> wrote: >> >>LCC is just plain fast. I wrote a code generator for FreeBSD last >>year and got to within 20% of GCC -O2 with less than 1/2 the compilation >>time. > > : From hsu@alumni.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Mon Aug 7 06:07:28 1995 > > : How does your version differ from the generator for Linux gas in 3.3? > > I just looked at the linux stuff in pub/lcc/contrib on ftp.cs.princeton.edu > and it's my code generator! I posted it to the LCC mailing list maybe > 8 months ago and I guess someone picked it up. Argh! This is a travesty. Is your name on the code? At one time, ugen wrote some code and got email from a linux user who was using it on linux. His response was pretty amusing. He posted to freebsd-hackers asking "Is nothing holy?" and whether he should put an anti-linux copyright on his code. It's just a travesty that the lcc distribution now touts linux prominently in all its announcements and the lcc release has a linux binary package in its distribution but not FreeBSD. I think we should make it clear to all the Linux lcc users that they're running a code generator developed on and for FreeBSD. Jeffrey