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From: anthony@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Lawrence Anthony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.005946.9689@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 91 00:59:46 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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In article <7370361@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> lang@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John J. Lang) writes:
>/ hpfcso:comp.sys.hp / jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) /  6:38 am  Apr  8, 1991 /
>> How reliable is the standard C compiler?  Are the higher optimization
>> levels sufficiently reliable to be usable?  Is ANSI C included with
>> HPUX or available separately?
>
>I think ANSI C is included, and uses the same optimizer.

my local hp sales rep tells me that C/ANSI C is NOT bundled with the base
HPUX operating system.  he claims that HPUX includes a stripped-down version
of the C compiler that contains neither a debugger nor an optimizer.  (pretty
slimy, if you ask me.)  any hp folk care to confirm or refute this claim?