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From: GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C compilers
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Date: 7 Jun 90 18:14:03 GMT
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On 7 Jun 90 13:19:17 GMT you said:
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>              Shortly after I got that compiler, 2 PD compiler became
>available. Now there are three PD C compilers. Szosobon C V1.01, PDC V3.33 and
> now DICE 2.00 by Matt Dillion. All are available by FTP, but I do not
>their exact location. Szosobon C (Zc) is available on a Fred Fish disk.
>I have used ZC and PDC. DICE is new. Zc does not support floating point
[More stuff...]

     There are FOUR Freely distributable compilers available.  PDC 3.33,
 Sozobon C 1.01 (FF314), DICE 2.00, and NorthC 1.0 (FF340).  Sozobon and
 NorthC are ported from the same compiler on the Atari ST, but will produce
 different .s files.  They also product executable without adding anything
 else.  PDC and DICE require Amiga.lib.  Since I haven't gotten Amiga.lib
 yet, I haven't tried out these compilers.

     ZC (Sozobon) generates BIG code, but it's reasonably fast.  NorthC
 generates smaller code (however still big), but the text output is
 *REAL SLOW*!  The compiler front end for NorthC doesn't work quite
 right.  A newer version of NorthC is scheduled fairly soon.

     PDC and DICE seem to generate smaller assembly source files than
 the other two.  All four would be sufficient for learning C or just
 tooling around.

>---------------------------------------------------------+
>Jonathan Swaby                                           |
>Computer Instructional Specialist                        |
>Center for Computing Assistance College of Liberal Arts  |
>Penn State University                                    |
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