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Enquire was used in gcc. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html says: Steven Pemberton for h
by yesenadam 8y ago
Enquire was used in gcc. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html says:
Steven Pemberton for his contribution of enquire which allowed GCC to determine various properties of the floating point unit and generate float.h in older versions of GCC.
"I wrote this originally for a piece of software (ABC, above) that had to run on any hardware, and require no particular knowledge from the person installing it. One day Richard Stallman passed by, and mentioned that they needed such a program for GCC. So I rewrote it and donated it. It produces the file float.h for the GCC compiler. The version here is a slightly more up to date version."
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/ https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/
- yesenadam 8y agoAnd I hadn't heard of ABC, but it looks very similar to Python, grammatically at least, was apparently a major influence on it, and indeed van Rossum had worked on the ABC team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(programming_language)