On 01/23/12 00:38, Robert Bonomi wrote:
Da Rock<[email protected]> wrote:
I personally had no idea this was going on; my impression was gcc grew
out of the original compiler that built unix, and the only choices were
borland and gcc. The former for win32 crap and the latter for, well,
everything else.
"Once upon a time", there were _many_ alternatives for C compilers.
Commercial -- i.e. 'you pay for it', or bundled with a pay O/S -- offerings
included (this is a _partial_ list, ones _I_ have personal knowledge of):
PCC -- (the original one0 medium-lousy code but the code-generator was
easily adapted to new/diferent hardwre
Green Hills Softwaware (used by a number of unix hardare manufacturers)
Sun Microsystems developed their own ("acc")
Silicon Graphics, Inc
Hewlett-Packard
Symantic (Think C -- notable for high-performance on early Apple Mac's,
significantly better than Apple's own MPW)
Manx Software ("Aztec C" -- a 'best of breed' for MS-DOS)
Microsoft
Intel
CCS
Watcom
Borland
Zortech
Greenleaf Software
Ellis Computing (specializing in 'budget' compilers, circa $30 pricetags)
"Small C"
tcc -- the 'tiny C compiler
Wow... I have some research to do...
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