New RISC compilers????
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Thu Mar 14 05:59:35 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar13.125214.7403 at crl.dec.com> jg at jg.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
>
> >So is this the "VAX C" reborn again in MIPS flavor? Can y'all use it
> >to build Ultrix? Did the updated MIPS C compiler ever make in into
> >an Ultrix release?
>
> No, the new compilers are NOT the old VAX/VMS compilers; they are an
> entirely new implementation, from scratch. I think you'll find they don't
> suffer from the problems the VAX C and Fortran compilers did when ported
> to Ultrix; these are fully integrated native compilers.
I didn't think they were the same compilers, rather I was wondering if they
were generic K&R/Ansi C compilers, or whether they were also supposed to
support all the "interesting" features of VAX C to serve as a tool for
porting VAX C applications to the MIPS architectures without having to make
the code portable/ansi standard...
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