Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 
> >
> > That would be wasted effort.  Are you going to add C++ to PCC?  Are you
> > going to add Fortran to PCC?  Are you going to make PCC emit debug info
> > that modern debuggers like to use?
> >
> Fortran has been a part of PCC for at least 20 years. But no, there
> are no reason to spend any time on that compiler unless someone really
> really feel like a masochist. I have spent some time inside it, and even
> if it is small and slim it generates quite bad code. The only positive
> thing with it is that it is very simple to add new targets, a useable
> machine description for something can be written in almost a few hours.
> 
> -- Ragge

It also doesn't take several cpu-days to build a kernel.

James