<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM Greg A. Woods <<a href="mailto:woods@robohack.ca">woods@robohack.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Which reminds me, wasn't there was some mention of difficulties with<br>
Pascal et al w.r.t. separate compilation earlier in this thread....<br>
Wasn't that one of the features of Berkeley Pascal? </blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff">Yes - had extensions for that so: compiling to *.o and using external libraries was possible. </font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff">man pc will describe the -c switch pc was the hooks into the pcc system for the vax, but I'm not sure if it was backported the PDP-11. It was moved to the 68k by a couple different teams, including Sun for SunOS. Maybe Larry or Rob G can answer if they ever moved it to SPARC. By that time, they had there own compiler suite and may have started to abandon anything based on pcc.</font></div><br></div></div></div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aY2xlbWNAY2NjLmNvbQ%3D%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=7ab442cf-5548-4dce-a07e-40bfc528d49a"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div>