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From: jbeard@quintus.UUCP (Jeff Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: C COMPILER FOR IBM MAINFRAME
Summary: experience
Message-ID: <1025@eden.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 15:42:59 GMT
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Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc: Mountain View, Ca
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I've ported to S/370 using {ATT&T,IBM,SAS,Waterloo} compilers, and overall prefer the SAS.

	variable length record source files

	#define continuation via \ as last char on line

	good inter-language facilities

	ability to execute without a run-time library

	direct object generation (asm.listing optional)

	TRUE re-entrant code using CXD/DXD and one-shot
	initialize compile time assignments

	VM DCSS support (findsys,loadsys)