-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2011-5252 2011-12-16 16:41:46 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : pcc Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 1.0.0 Release : 2.20111216cvs.el6 URL : http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/ Summary : The Portable C Compiler Description : The compiler is based on the original Portable C Compiler by Stephen C. Johnson, written in the late 70's. Even though much of the compiler has been rewritten, some of the basics still remain. PCC debuted in Unix Version 7 and replaced the DMR compiler (Dennis Ritchie's original C compiler) in both System V and the BSD 4.x releases. Some history about pcc is in the A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984 and in the Evolution of C.
About 50% of the frontend code and 80% of the backend code has been rewritten. Most stuff is written by Anders Magnusson, with the exception of the data-flow analysis part and the SSA conversion code which is written by Peter A Jonsson, and the Mips port that were written as part of a project by undergraduate students at Luleå University of Technology (LTU).
Caution: the compiler is still undergoing heavy development.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Update to newest CVS snapshot, fixing BZ #708305. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #708305 - C program compiled with pcc doesn't work https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708305 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update pcc' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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