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From: rokicki@rocky.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GNU C compiler
Message-ID: <213@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 10:36:59 EST
Article-I.D.: rocky.213
Posted: Thu Mar 26 10:36:59 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 06:35:53 EST
References: <1171@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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Keywords: C compiler free
Summary: I'm starting . . .

mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
> Is anyone thinking of doing an Amiga port of the GNU C compiler?  this
> would be a boon to everyone in the audience on a limited budget, plus
> it might give Lattice and Manx incentive to compete, given a free
> competitor.  Does anyone know what kind of demands the GNU C compiler
> makes on system resources (like memory and disk space)?

I've got it, and I'm hacking on it.  (It's called GNU gcc.)
Three comments:
   1.  The executable for the first pass on a 750 is 1.2M long.
   2.  It optimizes very well---it generates better code than Manx
       Lattice.
   3.  It optimizes too well---there are still some bugs to be removed.

If anyone wants to hack on it with me, drop me a line.  (mail to
...!decvax!decwrl!sushi.stanford.edu!rokicki, for instance, or
rokicki@sushi.stanford.edu preferred.)   For instance, I haven't
located a nice assembler yet . . .

-tom