[emilbratt]

That is not a compiler. That is called a wrapper script. But funny none the less.

[amszmidt]

The original cc was just a wrapper like this Python example around a bunch of external programs, calling c00, c01, until something could be fed to as and then linked using ld.

GCC does basically the same thing even today,

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

yeah but c00 and c01 actually do stuff