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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Suggested change to ACC compiler
Message-ID: <3249@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 13 Sep 89 21:35:09 GMT
References: <3196@ast.cs.vu.nl> <531@sirius.ua.oz.au> <1613@draken.nada.kth.se>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <1613@draken.nada.kth.se> matsl@nada.kth.se (Mats Luthman) writes:
>What about releasing it (ANSI C)  for the ATARI?

You want me to maintain two separate compilers, one for the PC and one
for the ATARI, with different input languages?  :-)
I may be crazy, but I'm not stark raving mad.  The present PC and Atari
compilers accept exactly the same language--they have to--it is the
same front end.

Maybe we could have the current compiler at least accept the new keywords
 const, volatile, and maybe a couple of others, and ignore them.  This
would at least eliminate -DCONST= etc.

Comments?

Andy Tanenbaum