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From: darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Porting PCC
Message-ID: <6604@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 15:22:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: ism780c.6604
Posted: Mon Jun 15 15:22:38 1987
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Reply-To: darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <5975@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <2082@dg_rtp.UUCP> wood@dg_rtp.UUCP (Tom Wood) writes:
>>	Are there a variety of PCC versions (V.3, 4.3, ...)?
>>	If so, which one is better to use as a base?
>
>Yes, the best version for most regular architectures is QCC which is
>the cc found on SVR3.0 (most likely also SVR3.1) for the 3B2 -- the
>System V "porting base".

No, the best base is the newer RCC, available on the 3B's and the 386;  it
is a QCC compiler that allows multiple, overlapping register sets to be
specified for different register requirements.  It's a very nice job!

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