[TUHS] Looking for final C compiler by Dennis Ritchie

Dibyendu Majumdar mobile at majumdar.org.uk
Fri Jul 20 05:23:53 AEST 2018


On 19 July 2018 at 06:41,  <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
> Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile at majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
>> I am interested in finding out if the last C compiler code (not the
>> earliest versions which I know
>> are available) written by Dennis Ritchie is available somewhere. I
>> assume that the C compiler in V7 code was written by him?
>>
> Yes - but take note, that would be 'cc'.  The 'pcc' command, also in
> V7, is Steve Johnson's Portable C Compiler.
>

Many thanks.

I was also wondering if the C pre-processor included in lcc project
was written by Dennis:
https://github.com/drh/lcc/tree/master/cpp

I seem to have read somewhere that it was - but I cannot locate any
reference to that.

Thanks and Regards
Dibyendu



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