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From: davidm@cbmvax.commodore.com (David Miller - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: gcc?
Keywords: gcc compiler
Message-ID: <21885@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 May 91 15:11:37 GMT
References: <269@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>
Reply-To: davidm@cbmvax.commodore.com (David Miller - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <269@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> lance@mpd.tandem.com (Lance Hartmann) writes:
|Please forgive the blatant ignorance, but could someone tell me
|what exactly "gcc" is?

The GNU C Compiler (gcc) is a publicly available C compiler provided
by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).  GCC supports both ANSI and K&R
C and provides (in some cases) better optimization that the standard C
compiler.  The source for gcc is provided as is required by the GNU
Public License (GPL).  The GPL requires full disclosure (rather than
concealment) of FSF source code and/or modifications or derivations.

If you are on the internet, you can retrieve FSF sources from
prep.ai.mit.edu via FTP.

|
|Many thanks,
|-- 
|Lance G. Hartmann - cs.utexas.edu!devnull!lance (Internet)

DavidM

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