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by bch 4702 days ago
No mention of pcc[1] except note that it was orphaned in the early 90s. I see here[2] it's been removed from OpenBSDs base system. What happened to pcc? I had high hopes for it. Is there no chance it'd become a viable compiler? (fwiw, it's still included in NetBSD base system).

  [1] http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/

  [2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/196817
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But it can't even compile NetBSD http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/portable_c_compiler which is disappointing (its much easier than Linux).
I've been watching PCC development from afar for a while. It seems to have stalled some time around 2011.