Da Rock <freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> 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 I'm sure others can name ones I've overlooked. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"