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where does the 8 come from? (that it occurred to both project creators.)
by logicallee 12y ago
where does the 8 come from? (that it occurred to both project creators.)
- SixSigma 12y agoMaybe 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 agoThat 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 agoThe 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 agoI asked the creator Rui about the name previously, he said there is no reason, just that other letters and numbers were taken.