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kencc

Fast and portable C compiler from Bell Labs

Intro

kencc is a C compiler originally writen by hacker legend Ken Thompson for the Plan 9 operating system, it's extremely fast and easy to port.

News

kencc website setup (18 Arp 2005) - uriel

The (so far) un-official web site for kencc has been setup, a preliminar
tarball based in the code extracted from the Inferno distribution has been
uploaded. A mailing list and more things soon to come.

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kencc and other utils released under MIT license (13 Arp 2005) - uriel

As part of the latest Inferno release VitaNuova
has re-licensed the code for kencc and other Plan 9 derivated tools under the
MIT license. A big thanks to Charles Forsyth for making this possible.

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Downloads

2005-04-13 inferno-utils.tar.gz - A tarball made of the utils/ directory from the 20050413 Inferno release.

There (should be) a mirror of this files in sf.net: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40382

Documentation

Plan 9 C Compilers by Ken Thompson - A paper explaining design and some internals of the compiler suite.
1c, 2c, 5c, 7c, 8c, kc, qc, vc – C compilers the Plan 9 man pages

Contact / Support

Mailing list:

kencc-hackers@kencc.org: Subscribe Archives.(not active yet)
Please, use 9fans in the meantime ;)

plan9dev: group at Google Groups

Irc: try #plan9 in irc.freenode.org

About

kencc was originally writen by Ken Thompson for the Plan 9 operating system. It was later also used in Inferno, which is now maintained by VitaNuova. Various people have contributed to it's development specially inside Bell Labs and VitaNuova.

In Apr 2005 VitaNuova re-released the source code for kencc under the MIT license allowing it to be used by various BSD projects.