Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Sep 2007 20:14 UTC, submitted by deanna
Anders Magnusson's BSD-licensed pcc compiler has been imported into NetBSD's pkgsrc and OpenBSD's src tree. Anders wrote to NetBSD's tech-toolchain list: "It is not yet bug-free, but it can compile the i386 userspace. The big benefit of it is that it is fast, 5-10 times faster than gcc, while still producing reasonable code. The only optimization added so far is a multiple-register-class graph-coloring register allocator, which may be one of the best register allocators today. Conversion to SSA format is also implemented, but not yet the phi function. Not too difficult though, after that strength reduction is high on the list."
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If, say, GCC4.5 changes license to GPLv4 that prohibits compiling non-GPL software, take the latest version of GCC4.4 and fork it.
It has been done before. (XFree86 vs. X.org)
- Gilboa