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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What is Saber C?
Message-ID: <1990Mar3.141219.10724@world.std.com>
Date: 3 Mar 90 14:12:19 GMT
References: <2877@polstra.UUCP>
Organization: Saber Software
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jdp@polstra.UUCP (John Polstra) writes:
>What is Saber C?
>Why does config/sun.cf on the X11R4 tape contain "#define HasSaberC YES"?
>What exactly does this configuration parameter affect?

Saber-C is a commercial C development environment based on a C
interpreter.  If you think of it as a super-duper lint with a
super-duper dbx built-in, you start to get the idea.  In reality it's
closer to a lisp-machine style enviroment for C programmers, though,
because it's completely extensible.

The configuration parameter HasSaberC affects the building of
makefiles.  Saber-C parses makefiles for commands such as "#load
foo.c", which are discarded as comments by a normal "make", but
generate useful actions within Saber-C.  If you don't use Saber-C the
flag doesn't hurt anything but if you *do* use it it's a godsend.

If you're doing development on Sun or DEC machines (in the future
there will be HP, 386, and IBM RIOS ports, each about 6mos-1yr away)
and are interested in Saber-C, you should email me and I'll have
someone send you more junk mail than you know what to do with :-).

As this is a commercial product this probably isn't the forum to
discuss it, so email discussion is appreciated.

Happy hacking,

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com