On Jun 19, 2:53, Tony Duell wrote:
> It doesn't matter (IMHO) _why_ Macro-11 was included, the fact is that it
> was. And it's possible to write programs in Macro-11, so it counts as a
> programming tool.
>
> For the unices mentioned earlier, I believe that cc, an assembler, etc
> were _not_ included with the OS. So there is no way of writing programs
> with the software as supplied.
Usually there would be only part of the compiler, and a linker, but no
assembler; and in some cases the linker would be a cut-down version. For
example, in IRIX, you only need to able to link COFF executables to rebuild
the kernel, whereas the normal linker/loader handles ELF executables.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 06:03:12 BST