I thought this was going to be about PCC but it appears to be something else? Actually some of this PDF seems to suffer from a very poor scan and it’s difficult to read. PCC is still under active development although it is moving very slowly.
This compiler by Alan Snyder is a different one, yeah, which predates the PCC by a few years, but didn’t really live on. Snyder’s compiler does seem to have influenced PCC, though. The 1978 report announcing PCC says:
A number of earlier attempts to make portable compilers are worth noting. While on CO-OP assignment to Bell Labs in 1973, Alan Snyder wrote a portable C compiler which was the basis of his Master’s Thesis at M.I.T. This compiler was very slow and complicated, and contained a number of rather serious implementation difficulties; nevertheless, a number of Snyder’s ideas appear in this work.
I thought this was going to be about PCC but it appears to be something else? Actually some of this PDF seems to suffer from a very poor scan and it’s difficult to read. PCC is still under active development although it is moving very slowly.
This compiler by Alan Snyder is a different one, yeah, which predates the PCC by a few years, but didn’t really live on. Snyder’s compiler does seem to have influenced PCC, though. The 1978 report announcing PCC says: