[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

[Wesley Parish]

The first book on compilers I got that included the source code.

It's been incorporated into lcc-win32, a neat little Win32 compiler 
suite that I have at times played with, mostly during the times I was 
actively maintaining a Windows-based community cybercaf. It's been 
upgraded to lcc-win64, so there is a back end for x86_64. Just not a 
*nix one.

Wesley Parish

On 8/03/24 22:33, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Interestingly, they used Literate Programming to do so.
> The source is available, but IIRC there isn't a back end
> for x86_64.
>
> Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Chris Fraser and Dave Hanson did LLC and wrote a book about it, very clean
>> and pedagogically valuable.
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com.au/Retargetable-C-Compiler-Design-Implementation/dp/0805316701
>>
>> -rob
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 11:31 AM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 5:08 PM Rich Salz <rich.salz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I believe Snyder was an MIT Master's thesis, finished in 1975[1].  There
>>>> was a fair amount of C and compiler work at MIT LCS, perhaps JNC can post
>>>> some info. I think Snyder's compiler was used for the MIT PC/IP[2] project;
>>>> the links at BitSavers imply they are related. PC/IP brought TCP and
>>>> clients to DOS 3 machines and was commercialized as FTP software and was
>>>> one of the reasons for the creation of the MIT license[4]. BDS C[3] was
>>>> done by an MIT drop-out, Leor Zolman. I bought my first motorcycle from him
>>>> :) BDS C was used for the first implementations of MINCE (mince is not
>>>> complete emacs -- those kinds of acronyms were popular) and Scribble,
>>>> downsized clones of emacs and Scribe, respectively.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/specpub.php?id=717
>>>> [2] https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/pcip-1986.pdf
>>>> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C
>>>> [4] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9263265
>>>>
>>> Judging from what's at the bitsavers I posted, the source for pcip and
>>> this is the backstory to them.
>>>
>>> Warner
>>>