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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Decus C
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.214916.1184@spcvxb.spc.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 91 21:49:15 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.030728.19773@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
Distribution: comp.dec.sys
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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In article <1991Mar22.030728.19773@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, tmiller@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Todd Miller) writes:
> 
> 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. [...]

  A lot of people have done a lot of work on DECUS C since the last release
Martin Minow put together. However, much of that work has not been co-ordinated
and consists of users adding some needed feature for their environment. The 
sort of thing you're looking for would require a concerted effort throughout
the compiler (and the libraries, if you're talking ANSI C).

  DEC now offers a PDP-11 C compiler (V1.1 shipped recently). At the moment it
is a strict ANSI compiler (ANSI and not much else), but it _is_ improving and
it has a much better ANSI-compliance-checker than VAX C.

  If your school is part of the DEC Education Initiative, there is a VMS native
mode compiler (which generates PDP-11 code) version on the Condist CD. V1.1 is
new on the March '91 CD. You just copy the objects and the libraries to your
PDP-11 and link there. There's also a PDP-11 version of the compiler (for RSX,
RSTS, and RT-11) if you want to pursue that option (the PDP-11 hosted version
isn't in the CSLG).

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, US
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	(201) 915-9381