Aucbvax.5211
fa.info-vax
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Mon Nov 16 13:18:00 1981
VMS C compiler
>From mo@LBL-UNIX Mon Nov 16 12:35:44 1981
The DEC C compiler is NOT free!!!  It is a product being funded by the
Unix engineering group inside DEC.  We are a test site for the compiler
and the current reactions are mixed.  The code generation is nothing
to brag about, in fact, often worse than the Unix compiler for routine
expressions (in spite of much optimizer screwing around).  What is worse,
the run-time system is horrid.  It will also be broken by VMS 3.0
(which we are also a test-site for).  When it is finally announced,
it will cost MONEY.  We will talk more about the compiler as experience
accumulates.
	-Mike