On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> Speaking of free: What compilers does OpenBSD currently come with?
>
> There's the rub.  There is only gcc that is free in any sense.   
> There's
> a great clamoring for a BSD/ISC compiler but it doesn't exist yet.

Some folks from OpenBSD (Theo & Otto Moerbeek) are doing a lot of  
work to get PCC modernized and usable.  Most of a BSD userland is  
buildable with that now, but the kernel tends to use __attribute__  
more and thus it's not a drop in replacement, at least not yet.

-- 
-Chuck