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Posted Oct 25, 2007 5:03 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: An interesting historical artifact by JoeBuck
Parent article: A potential competitor for GCC: pcc

The compiler does have at least some support for prototypes, so it isn't pure K&R C. Not sure what all is missing at this point.


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Posted Oct 25, 2007 10:58 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

A proper (tokenizing) preprocessor? Last time I looked at PCC it not only had a K&R-style
textual-transformation preprocessor, but its advocates were pushing this as a huge advantage.

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