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From: jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: New RISC compilers????
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.234206.18940@crl.dec.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 23:42:06 GMT
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In article <19831@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> 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...

Sorry, as I said, I haven't looked at the C compiler myself.  So I can't help
you with that question.

The new DEC fortran compiler, though, goes much further toward making life easier when 
porting VAX Fortran code to RISC/Ultrix than the MIPS Fortran compiler does.
				- Jim