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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: New RISC compilers????
Message-ID: <19831@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 19:59:35 GMT
References: <15530012@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <1991Mar13.031200.29836@crl.dec.com> <19805@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar13.125214.7403@crl.dec.com>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Mar13.125214.7403@crl.dec.com> jg@jg.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
>
> >So is this the "VAX C" reborn again in MIPS flavor?  Can y'all use it
> >to build Ultrix?  Did the updated MIPS C compiler ever make in into
> >an Ultrix release?
> 
> No, the new compilers are NOT the old VAX/VMS compilers; they are an
> entirely new implementation, from scratch.  I think you'll find they don't
> suffer from the problems the VAX C and Fortran compilers did when ported
> to Ultrix; these are fully integrated native compilers. 

I didn't think they were the same compilers, rather I was wondering if they
were generic K&R/Ansi C compilers, or whether they were also supposed to
support all the "interesting" features of VAX C to serve as a tool for
porting VAX C applications to the MIPS architectures without having to make
the code portable/ansi standard...

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