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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: THINK C 4.0 Press Release
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Date: 21 Jul 89 20:17:29 GMT
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In article <15681@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> carlton@bellatrix (Mike Carlton) writes:

>How ANSI is it?  Can I write new style function headers yet?  

	It's very ANSI. It's not 100% conformant, but it scored higher on
the ANSI Sampler than most compilers that claim ANSI conformance.
In particulare, you can use "new" style function declarations.

>"New optimizations"?  I never saw any old optimizations.  Can you tell 
>us what optimizations are performed?

	That's why they're "new". I don't recall all of the optimizations,
but one that I do remember is MOVE #0, An --> SUBA An, An.

>Seems like LSC is getting more and more expensive.  But I guess I'll keep 
>upgrading as long as the new "goodies" are worth it.

	"More and more"? This is the first price increase in the history 
of the product. I think it's a reasonable one, given the extra value
in this release (object support, all-new libraries, assembler and compiler
enhancements, and a class library).

	But that's just my opinion.

		--Rich

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