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From: "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 80386 C compiler
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:15:37 +0800
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"BGB" <cr88192@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > There are any number of open source C compilers. But they need to be
> > good enough (too many support only a subset, which may not be enough for
> > the OP) and they need to be public domain for the OP's purposes.
>
> I am more in the camp of MIT or BSD license should be good enough for
> most things.

Yes, there are a lot of people in a lot of camps, and this is
where we end up - no public domain C90 compiler
(cc64 is close, but is generated code, and not 80386).

And so that is what I am trying to achieve now. I've given
up waiting for someone else to do it.

> Trying to go full public domain has a few of its own issues:

Claimed issues.

> * Not always recognized as valid;

I'm happy to say in the documentation that you can use
CC0 instead if you wish.

> * Implicitly lacks "No Warranty" and "No Liability" protections for the
> author (say, if someone wanted to file a lawsuit over the code being
> buggy, etc).

You can add such a disclaimer to anything - copyright or
public domain.

Have you ever heard of anyone in the world ever being sued
for writing public domain code that had a bug in it?

PDOS is public domain. It shouldn't be difficult to find what
could be described as a bug in it.

I encourage you to find a bug in it, try to sue me, and see
how far you get.

Anyway - this is part of the reason why we are where we are.

> As for C compilers, I have a compiler for my own uses, but:
> * MIT licensed;

Yes, yet another non-public domain C compiler described.

BFN. Paul.