From: jgk@panix.com   
      
   In article <12-03-062@comp.compilers>,   
   [moderator] wrote:   
   >[I think it's fair to say that GCC was the first free compiler that   
   >generated code competitive with commercial compilers. -John]   
      
   I think i could make a fair argument for PCC.   
      
   And with Unix they say: of course; the compiler is part of the operating   
   system; who in the hell would not do that?   
   [Having looked at PCC in considerable detail, I can say that it generated   
   adequate code for a PDP-11, lousy code for a Vax or anything else with a   
   lot of registers.  It treated the registers as a stack, and the only   
   way a value got saved in a register was either an explicit register   
   declaration, or some very simple peephole optimizations. -John]   
      
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