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From: nathan@orstcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Optimiczing CI-C86? - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 14-Dec-83 03:56:15 EST
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orstcs!nathan    Dec 13 18:35:00 1983


We obtained version 1.33d in April '83 (the latest non-optimizing version),
with the promise that for our $400 we would be getting the optimizing version
within a month.  We have yet to receive it.  About every month or so, they
say "in three or four weeks" when I call to check up.  Otherwise, I am very
pleased with the compiler and have had very little trouble contacting them.

I am particularly pleased that I can talk to the person who wrote the compiler
when I have difficulties.  (compiler bugs do surface on occasion...)

The optimizing version still won't have structure assignment or enum types.
These facilities have been in Unix C for several years now, and there is
little excuse for not putting them into a modern compiler.  Recently we
had occasion to port code produced by yacc to this compiler; the CI 
compiler rejected it. (with some hand-massaging we made CI accept it)

CI also does not ship a lint with their compiler.  Since nobody else but
Bell seems to, we can't really single them out; but they claim to supply
"full K&R C".  Lint is mentioned many times in K&R as accompanying the
C compiler, and is described as being as much a part of the C system as
"stdio".  

Can we consider a C compiler product complete K&R if it doesn't include lint?

	Nathan C. Myers 
	Alan Batie