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From: leblanc@godzilla.ele.toronto.edu (Marcel LeBlanc)
Subject: Re: C compilers
Message-ID: <8805201521.AA20807@godzilla.ele.toronto.edu>
Summary: INTs in Super C
Keywords: Abacus Super C
Organization: EECG, University of Toronto
References: <53@xenon.UUCP> <5490@emcard.UUCP> <3505@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date:	Fri, 20 May 88 10:01:27 EDT

In article <3505@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> rob@selenium.cchem.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Robert Oyung) writes:
>I have been using the Abacus Super C package for a while now and have tried
>both the C64 and C128 versions.  The C128 version is much better because of
>the implementation of a RAM disk which makes compiling and linking blazingly
>fast.
 ...
>It produces machine code that is not as fast as Power-C but it is not
>noticably sluggish.

Super C allows for integers that are 16 or 32 bits.  I was under the
impression that Power-C only allows 8 or 16 bit integers.  If this is the
case, then this would explain a lot of the differences in speed and size
between the two compilers.  My biggest gripe about Super C is that I can't
copy the compiler to the RAM disk, or to my 1581 drive.

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>Robert Oyung                                  rob@selenium.cchem.berkeley.edu


  Marcel A. LeBlanc
  University of Toronto -- Toronto, Canada
  also: LMS Technologies Ltd, Fredericton, NB, Canada

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