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From: ddb@mrvax.DEC (DAVID DYER-BENNET MRO1-2/L14 DTN 231-4076)
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Subject: C for CPM-80
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Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 13:03:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 14 13:03:52 1985
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I have both the ECO-SOFT C and BDS C for CPM-80.  ECO-SOFT is a
fairly good K&R implementation, but the code it produces and/or its
run-time library are VERY BAD.  

BDS C is a subset, with some moderately annoying restrictions.
However, simple programs in BDS-C seem to be 30% smaller and 30%
faster than the same programs in ECO-SOFT C.  I have found this
to be a sufficiently large difference that I rarely use ECO-SOFT
C (though I keep it around for portability).

Also, BDS C provides a source-level debugger; I know of no other
C for CPM-80 which does.

In other words, I haven't found a satisfactory C for my home system
yet, I have to use two unsatisfactory ones.

		-- David Dyer-Bennet
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