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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
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Subject: Re: LightspeedC 3.0 Review (long)
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Date: 21 Jul 88 19:09:42 GMT
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>Yup, GNU CC is _very_ good!  And it's free!
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>Is there anybody interested in porting it to the Mac?
>I suspect there might be a big problem in object file format, etc.
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   The problems with porting Gnu C are as follows:
     1: Add the Pascal keywoard for talking to C programs.
i    1a:  add the \p escape.
     2: Make doubles 80 bits longs (90 for 68881)
     3: Richard Stallman thinks Apple is the AntiChrist 

  Problems 1 and 2 are not insurmountable, if you have the time. I have ported
 bison to MPW already (Gnu's yacc clone). 3: is irrelevant.

 However, one advantage of porting Gnu CC, besides the fact that its a good 
compiler, is that a Gnu C++ port is trivial after that.

 So i'll make someone a deal. They port Gnu CC, and I will give them advice
and I will port Gnu C++, and GnuChess.

Pierce
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