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From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Small C
Summary: Capabilities
Message-ID: <564@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 89 01:17:47 GMT
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In article <15990@oberon.USC.EDU> mlinar@eve.usc.edu (Mitch Mlinar) writes:
| 
| 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.

The current version of Small C is AT LEAST 2.1 - and it DOES support:

	- for
	- do/while
	- switch/case/default
	- goto
	- assignment operators (+= -= *= etc.)
        - precompiler stuff including:
		#define
		#include
		#ifdef
		#ifndef
		#else
		#endif
		#asm
		#endasm
	- int foo(i) int i;  /* DOES work - or should */

Version 2.1 is a considerably better version than 1.x - I'm surprised
there are any 1x implementations anywere.

          [david]

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