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		4ad on Feb 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clang vs. other open-source compilers No, it wasn't. Pcc is just kencc ran through a special mode and with special APE libraries. It has nothing to do with S. C. Johnson's pcc. > The pcc command acts as a front end to the Plan 9 C compilers and loaders. http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/pcc http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/ape https://github.com/0intro/plan9/blob/master/sys/src/cmd/pcc....

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Point ceded, sorry for being difficult!

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