[geeks] MIPSPro C and C++

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

> > > That's the disc you actually have to pay for.  fec is in the "C
> > > Compiler Front-End" package, which is "c_fe".  c_fe and related
> > > packages are on the MIPSpro compiler CD.
> 
> I believe that the compiler comes on the "Development Foundation" CD in
> the 6.5 install sets.  You can install the compiler, but you need a FlexLM
> license key to make it run.

That's the back-end compiler, the code generator, the assembler, and the
linker.  The C front-end (which translates C source into a language-graph
that the back-end compiler can use) is not included.

Basically, you get everything up to the parser on the Development
Foundation CD.

--Jonathan