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Old 8th November 2008
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Originally Posted by Oko View Post
On the another note I, as many OpenBSD users, have hight hope that GCC will be thing of the past in no time and that PCC will be the only compiler present in the base of the system.
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
Well, PCC, the C99 compiler recently imported into OpenBSD/NetBSD.. has a code base less then 5MB in size. (And produces executable smaller then GCC..).

Just because most compilers are bloated, doesn't mean they have to be.
I too share the hope that GCC will be replaced with PCC - or at least with another BSD-licensed compiler that both compiles code faster and creates executable code that runs faster and is smaller...and doesn't require the types of system resources one usually only sees in Vista marketing material.

Though, as far as I know, PCC is still a long way from being able to compile a complete base system.
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