On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Quoth V. T. Mueller on Thu, Jan 07, 1999:
> > the compiler you have is called the "braindead C-compiler" because it
> > can't compile anything beside a kernel. You either have to get a copy of
> > gcc from the HPUX Software Porting Archives (forget about compiling it
> > with bdcc) or to buy the ANSI cc from HP.
>
> Just for puns: what is the official name of bdcc? And what is so
> bad about it? Except that it compiles K&R code only.
Hello Vadik,
The so called braindead C-compiler (which I abbreviated bdcc) is even
worse than you probably think. It's not only that it's not capable of
compiling ANSI C - it's even unable to compile anything slightly more
sophisticated than a "helloworld.c"... (and the HPUX kernel of course :)
The only positive aspect about that is the security aspect. Someone who
would like to do bad things on a HP-UX machine had to get gcc (which could
be easily prevented by the use of quotas and shell restrictions) or
binaries (that could be easily found by a cronjob and/or auditing).
cheerio,
Volker
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