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Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) (Miscellaneous)

posted by Ibidem, 08.01.2012, 03:54

I was poking around recently, and spotted this:
http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub///mirrors/minnie.tuhs.org/Applications/Portable_CC/
286.zip 08-Aug-2002 20:38 169K
8086.zip 08-Aug-2002 20:38 1.3M
16032.zip 08-Aug-2002 20:39 305K
68000.zip 08-Aug-2002 20:40 504K
README 09-Aug-2002 18:10 145


They were apparently the result of some MIT student projects, involving ports of the original Portable C Compiler (what today's PCC is based on).
The "8086.zip" is definitely a cross compiler, capable of targeting DOS on PC-compatibles.
Judging by date (early 80's), it's K&R C... though I have seen a couple ANSI preprocessors that could be used with such compilers.
NO copyright/license notices are present, unfortunately.
I think the binaries are BSD 4.1 (VAX), though that's a wag.
It definitely won't compile on modern Linux; it seemed like the errors might be cleaned up without too much work.
It would be interesting to check how it builds with "Bruce's C Compiler" or an old GCC on DOS.

Complete thread:

• Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Ibidem, 08.01.2012, 03:54 (Miscellaneous)
  • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 01.03.2012, 01:01
    • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 01.03.2012, 06:58
      • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 01.03.2012, 07:26
        • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 01.03.2012, 21:33
          • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 01.03.2012, 21:48
            • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 03.03.2012, 23:43
              • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 04.03.2012, 03:34
                • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 05.03.2012, 20:14
                  • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 05.03.2012, 20:56
                    • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 06.03.2012, 03:51
                      • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 06.03.2012, 04:14
                        • LCC-DOS.ZIP 4.2 using DJGPP libc 2.01 (28-Aug-2011) - Rugxulo, 07.03.2012, 01:38
                          • LCC-DOS.ZIP 4.2 using DJGPP libc 2.01 (28-Aug-2011) - bocke, 10.03.2012, 08:29
                            • LCC-DOS.ZIP 4.2 using DJGPP libc 2.01 (28-Aug-2011) - Rugxulo, 10.03.2012, 18:51
                              • LCC-DOS.ZIP 4.2 using DJGPP libc 2.01 (28-Aug-2011) - bocke, 19.03.2012, 02:17
                                • LCC-DOS.ZIP 4.2 using DJGPP libc 2.01 (28-Aug-2011) - Rugxulo, 19.03.2012, 19:00
                      • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 06.03.2012, 06:26
                        • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - roytam, 06.03.2012, 12:36
                          • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 10.03.2012, 08:17
          • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Ibidem, 22.03.2012, 00:58
            • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 22.03.2012, 08:38
              • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Ibidem, 22.03.2012, 18:17
                • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 22.03.2012, 20:34
                  • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Ibidem, 23.03.2012, 07:06
                    • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 27.03.2012, 20:28
                      • Old 8086 version/Venksi's self-assembling assembler+runcom - Arjay, 27.03.2012, 21:35
      • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - bocke, 01.03.2012, 19:23
        • Old 8086 version of pcc spotted (cross-compiles to DOS) - Rugxulo, 01.03.2012, 21:36