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From: rwood@pa.dec.com (Richard Wood)
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Subject: Re: New RISC compilers????
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.155032@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 23:50:32 GMT
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In article <19831@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
(George Robbins) writes:
> 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...

d) All of the above

Using command-line switches, the behavior can be set to any one of:
 - ANSI C
 - K&R C
 - "VAX C"

I'm not sure which the default is, but I suspect it's ANSI.  

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Richard Wood     Corporate Worksystems Team      Digital Equipment Corp.
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