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From: smk@cbterra.ATT.COM (Stephen Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: More Info on CC8
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Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 14:54:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  6 14:54:01 1987
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A few more things about this version of the compiler:

I've noticed a couple of "features" CC8 has inherited from Deep Blue
C.  One is that the "for" statement will not accept null expressions.
Thus,

    for ( ; ; )

needs to be written

    for ( 0; 1; 0 )

Ugh!  Will be fixed next version...

The other is that the compiler also insists that the expression to the
left of a [ be of type pointer or array.  However, the definition of C
states that the expression "a[23]" is the same as "23[a]" (since it is
also equivalent to "*(a + 23)").  This may not get fixed.

A couple of other tidbits:

    o the maximum number of array bound that can be declared is 6 (7
      if "array of ... array of int|char").  More and the compiler
      runs out of space for type descriptors.  Don't tell me 6 isn't
      enough! :-)

    o The compiler understands "left curly", "right curly", and
      "tilde" (meaning whatever graphic or control character they
      happen to map to in ATASCII).

    o add "Constant expression may be used as case label" to the
      future features list.

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Steve Kennedy			...!cbosgd!smk