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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker
I think this has less to do with pcc as such, and more to do with competition to GCC in general.
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PCC is not an alternative to GCC. PCC is a Unix system compiler only (C compiler which produces serial machine code only) while GCC is a general purpose compiler which supports variety of languages and many, many knobs. LLVM is a more of a general purpose compiler like GCC but BSDs really have a BIG problem with compilers because there is not a single proprietary compiler supporting any of BSDs (at least officially). There are also some very specialized fantastic open source compilers like Open64 which are not ported to a single BSD. Lack of compilers have truly killed BSDs as a viable scientific computing platform (I mean NetBSD and FreeBSD here since OpenBSD is only a network appliance OS).