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From: zadco@ssc-vax.UUCP (Rick Fairfield)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Summary of CP/M C compiler suggestions
Message-ID: <704@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 13:23:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 13:23:18 1985
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA
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                        May 6, 1985

     I received many replies to my request for a better CP/M
C  compiler  than  Whitesmiths.  Everyone  agrees  that Whi-
tesmiths C Compiler is a dog.  How can they  get  away  with
selling such trash at such a high price (about $700.00) - is
the market asleep?.  Anyway, here is a  summary  of  what  I
learned:

1)   The nearly unanimous favorite was the  Aztec  'C'  com-
piler from Manx Software. This compiler costs about $200.00.
The Aztec C compiler was liked because of its similarity  to
the 4.2 bsd Unix C compiler, because it includes source code
for the library, and because of it has pretty good  compila-
tion  speed.   However, a common complaint was that the code
generated is not very efficient, making for rather long pro-
gram  files. Since I am writing large programs this may be a
problem for me.

2)   There are a number of inexpensive  C  compilers  (under
$100.00),  all of which appear to produce efficient code and
sport fast compilation times.  These compilers suffered from
varying  degrees  of "non-standardness".  The BDS C compiler
was the most well liked in this class.

3)   Several people mentioned the  Eco-Soft  C  compiler  as
being the most modern, standard, and complete CP/M implemen-
tation. However, none of these people had actually used  the
compiler;  all  were  reporting second hand information.  If
anyone has any hands-on experience with  this  compiler  I'd
like to hear from you.

						Thanx,
						zzzzzadco

						aka Rick Fairfield
						Boeing Aerospace Co
						206-773-1004