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I wish it had a different name. 8c is the name of the plan c compiler on x86 http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/2c http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/2c

logicallee 12y ago
where does the 8 come from? (that it occurred to both project creators.)
- SixSigma 12y ago
  Maybe 8086. But the Plan9 ones have a number for each arch (until it was more than 9!) It was packaged as kencc for *nix, in honour of Ken http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/ http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/
  - 4ad 12y ago
    That kencc never worked right, this is the ken-cc to use now: https://code.google.com/p/ken-cc/ https://code.google.com/p/ken-cc/
- 4ad 12y ago
  The first character represents the architecture: 0c spim little-endian MIPS 3000 family 1c 68000 Motorola MC68000 2c 68020 Motorola MC68020 4c mips64 little-endian MIPS64 5c arm little-endian ARM 6c 960 Intel i960 (historical) 6c amd64 AMD64 and compatibles (e.g., Intel EM64T) 7c arm64 little-endian ARM64 7c alpha Digital Alpha APX (historical) 8c 386 Intel i386, i486, Pentium, etc. 9c 2900 AMD 29000 (historical) 9c power64 64-bit POWER kc sparc Sun SPARC qc power Power PC uc sparc64 SPARC64 vc mips big-endian MIPS 3000 family xc 3210 AT&T DSP 3210 (historical) zc avr Atmel AVR Some are more mnemonic than others.
- andrewchambers 12y ago
  I asked the creator Rui about the name previously, he said there is no reason, just that other letters and numbers were taken.
rurban 12y ago
That's why he called it 8cc, on purpose. He works with his fellow Rob Pike 8c author at google, and Go just switched away from 8c to their new internal compiler written in Go. And 8cc shares the similar KISS principles as 8c, by far simpler than the big and slow c compilers gcc, clang, CompCert.
- lloeki 12y ago
  If I'm not mistaken, both this compiler and plan9 6c target x86-64, so naming it 8cc has a weird cognitive dissonance to it. [0]: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/8c http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/8c
  - rurban 12y ago
    Oh right. Didn't see that 6 vs 8. Odd name then.
- rui314 12y ago
  It's not correct to say that I'm working with Rob Pike. I contributed code to Go project in my spare time but that was a hobby. I'm working for LLVM team at Google and not for Go team. And the naming is, although it may sound like Plan 9-ish, not related to any of the tools. I chose a random character to append before "cc".
smorrow 12y ago
It's the Plan 9 C compiler _for_ x86.

logicallee 12y ago

where does the 8 come from? (that it occurred to both project creators.)

SixSigma 12y ago
Maybe 8086. But the Plan9 ones have a number for each arch (until it was more than 9!) It was packaged as kencc for *nix, in honour of Ken http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/ http://gsoc.cat-v.org/projects/kencc/
- 4ad 12y ago
  That kencc never worked right, this is the ken-cc to use now: https://code.google.com/p/ken-cc/ https://code.google.com/p/ken-cc/
4ad 12y ago
The first character represents the architecture: 0c spim little-endian MIPS 3000 family 1c 68000 Motorola MC68000 2c 68020 Motorola MC68020 4c mips64 little-endian MIPS64 5c arm little-endian ARM 6c 960 Intel i960 (historical) 6c amd64 AMD64 and compatibles (e.g., Intel EM64T) 7c arm64 little-endian ARM64 7c alpha Digital Alpha APX (historical) 8c 386 Intel i386, i486, Pentium, etc. 9c 2900 AMD 29000 (historical) 9c power64 64-bit POWER kc sparc Sun SPARC qc power Power PC uc sparc64 SPARC64 vc mips big-endian MIPS 3000 family xc 3210 AT&T DSP 3210 (historical) zc avr Atmel AVR Some are more mnemonic than others.
andrewchambers 12y ago
I asked the creator Rui about the name previously, he said there is no reason, just that other letters and numbers were taken.

rurban 12y ago

That's why he called it 8cc, on purpose. He works with his fellow Rob Pike 8c author at google, and Go just switched away from 8c to their new internal compiler written in Go. And 8cc shares the similar KISS principles as 8c, by far simpler than the big and slow c compilers gcc, clang, CompCert.

lloeki 12y ago
If I'm not mistaken, both this compiler and plan9 6c target x86-64, so naming it 8cc has a weird cognitive dissonance to it. [0]: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/8c http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/8c
- rurban 12y ago
  Oh right. Didn't see that 6 vs 8. Odd name then.
rui314 12y ago
It's not correct to say that I'm working with Rob Pike. I contributed code to Go project in my spare time but that was a hobby. I'm working for LLVM team at Google and not for Go team. And the naming is, although it may sound like Plan 9-ish, not related to any of the tools. I chose a random character to append before "cc".

smorrow 12y ago

It's the Plan 9 C compiler _for_ x86.