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From: tmiller@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Todd Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Decus C
Keywords: Decus, C
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.030728.19773@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 03:07:28 GMT
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Does anyone out there know if the latest revisions to DECUS C (seems to
be 11S107, Symposium Collection from RSX SIG, Spring 1989)  contains 
enough fixes to make it a generally usefule compiler?  While I realize
that the latest version has I and D space requirements which
my PRO 11/23 cannot handle I'm more interested in the level of 
compatability with more popular C compilers.  I currently have the
PRO version of DECUS C but more often than not the source code I get has
to be extensively modified to compile correctly.  Is it worth the time
and money to remove the I and D space code and get it to run?  The old
compiler is too limited even to declare structures inside code blocks,
it can't handle very some data type declarations, etc...  I'd like to
see something that can handle most standard C (if there is such a thing),
my current compiler seems not to do this.


						Thanks,
							Todd M. Miller