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From: mlinar@eve.usc.edu (Mitch Mlinar)
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Subject: Re: Small C
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Date: 20 Mar 89 19:38:34 GMT
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In article <8903201146.AA00867@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> PC3@IB.RL.AC.UK (Paul Clayson) writes:
>Does anybody use Small C? I'm using the CP/M version available from
>the Simtel20 PD archives. Does anybody have any information on what
>is/is not available in small C, as I cannot get it to compile
>multidimentional arrays, DO-WHILE, FOR or SWITCH-CASE. Are these
>not available or do I need to know more on how to use them in Small C?

Yep, the documentation is quite clear in what it has as well as what it
is missing.  Items *NOT* supported in SmallC v1.2 are:

	- for
	- do/while
	- switch/case/default
	- multiple dimension arrays
	- goto
	- float (although it does support double)
	- structures
	- unions
	- multiple indirections (two or more * such as **i)
	- assignment operators (+= -= *= etc.)
	- storage classes
	- precompiler stuff other than #define/#include/#asm/#endasm
	- declaring a function AND its function type in the same line
		(e.g. double foo(i) int i; /* will not work */)
	- probably other things too

For a free compiler and a learning tool (you get the source code), it
is pretty decent.

-Mitch