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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A VMS C compiler?
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Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 19:16:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 19:16:39 1987
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>In article <10191@brl-adm.ARPA> eichelbe@nadc.arpa (J. Eichelberger) writes:
>>It has been mentioned in various VAX-related mailing lists that there is
>>a VMS C compiler available from an organization known as the Free Software
>>Foundation.

In article <3058@psuvax1.psu.edu> ehrlich@psuvax1.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
>I do not know if it runs under VMS, but the Foundation does have a VAX
>C compiler.  [information on obtaining it from FSF deleted]

That compiler is itself written in C, though you will need a Unix-ish
assembler to use it.  FSF may have one; if not, it seems feasible
to feed gcc's output through the VMS macro assembler.

For those interested in performance, on at least one benchmark
(some version of cspice) the VMS C compiler beat 4.3BSD's pcc, and
gcc beat the VMS C compiler, in runtime of the compiled code.  I
did not do the test and have no further details (in fact, my copy
gcc is not even working yet).
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