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From: ccrdan@ucdavis.UUCP (Dan Gold)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Who are Tartan Labs?
Message-ID: <312@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-May-86 21:32:48 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  3 21:32:48 1986
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> In article <1415@homxb.UUCP> gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
> >I have seen bits and pieces of references to Tartan Labs.
> >Could somebody tell me what their product line is, etc.
> 
> Apologies for not being super-specific,  but Tartan Labs is a spinoff
> from Carnegie-Mellon University.  The people include several compiler
> people who have much experience writing highly optimizing compilers
> (they designed and imlplemented BLISS). One is a C for VAXes.
> 
> The reason I'm posting this is that they also produced a book entitled
> "The C Reference Manual" that is a wonderful compilation of information
> on C that any serious user or compiler writer should have next to K&R,
> especially if they are interested in portable code.  The book covers
> all sorts of weird cases that you just can't answer from K&R.  Available
> in better bookstores on the East and West coasts.

Slight correction and more specifics on the book:
Title:		C: A REFERENCE MANUAL
Authors:	Samuel P. Harbison/Guy L. Steele Jr.
		of Tartan Laboratories
Publisher:	Prentice-Hall (Software Series)
Cost:		~$20.00

The book offers a lot of useful information on the standard features of most
C compiliers and points out potential pitfalls and improvements for 
portability.

Dan Gold
University of California, Davis

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