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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Compiling ANSI C on non-ANSI C environment
Message-ID: <14824@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 91 03:30:36 GMT
References: <2865@hsi86.hsi.com>
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Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <2865@hsi86.hsi.com>, by may@hsi86.hsi.com (Jeanette May):
> We are attempting to compile ANSI C source on 4.3 BSD UNIX (VAX)
> environment.

I'm wondering why there is seems to be no ANSI-C to C compiler around,
a la "cfront", the C++ to C compiler. It would seem to be a natural.
There are a couple of things that would have to be kluged up a little --
passing floats rather than doubles as parameters, for example -- but
that's no big deal.

Is there a market for such a beast? Is there one available? If not,
I'm sure I could rig one up without too much trouble.