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From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik)
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Subject: Re: Porting MPW C code to A/UX, Can some one give me a hand?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 21:52:17 GMT
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In article <3134@redstar.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, liam@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes:
> 
> As they should - your code has evil MPW-specific hacks in it.
> There isn't an easy answer: you will have to pick either A/UX cc or gcc and 
> then convert the MPW code to work with your chosen compiler.
> 
> I'd be inclined to choose gcc: it is a better compiler and Apple must 
> eventually produce an ANSI C compiler as well.

Yes, we announced our new ANSI C compiler for A/UX early this week,
it's a port of the System V.4 C compiler from AT&T. Yes, we also
have Cfront 2.1 for A/UX now as well. Availability, well, soon!

Regards,
Kent