ctk@ecsvax.UUCP (12/10/83)
I see ads now for the Optimizing CI-C86 compiler. I've tried to
call them but always get a busy line. Does this really exist?
Has anyone out there got one? Is anyone from CI out there?
I have the current version of their compiler and like it a
lot but, like most anyone, need MORE SPEED.
C.T. Kelley
Dept. of Math.
N.C. State U.
Raleigh, N.C. 27650
decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!ctkbae@astrovax.UUCP (Brian Ehrmantraut ) (12/11/83)
I've got the beta version of their compiler, and it
works great, except for a few minor bugs which are already fixed
in the release version. One note : it is very slow in compiling
when you have the optimizer and the large-model option cranked
up.
The code it puts out is very tight, usually 2-4x the speed
produced by the older version.
Brian A. Ehrmantraut
allegra!{astrovax, fisher, twiggy}!baenathan@orstcs.UUCP (12/14/83)
#R:ecsvax:-170000:orstcs:8500007:000:1305 orstcs!nathan Dec 13 18:35:00 1983 We obtained version 1.33d in April '83 (the latest non-optimizing version), with the promise that for our $400 we would be getting the optimizing version within a month. We have yet to receive it. About every month or so, they say "in three or four weeks" when I call to check up. Otherwise, I am very pleased with the compiler and have had very little trouble contacting them. I am particularly pleased that I can talk to the person who wrote the compiler when I have difficulties. (compiler bugs do surface on occasion...) The optimizing version still won't have structure assignment or enum types. These facilities have been in Unix C for several years now, and there is little excuse for not putting them into a modern compiler. Recently we had occasion to port code produced by yacc to this compiler; the CI compiler rejected it. (with some hand-massaging we made CI accept it) CI also does not ship a lint with their compiler. Since nobody else but Bell seems to, we can't really single them out; but they claim to supply "full K&R C". Lint is mentioned many times in K&R as accompanying the C compiler, and is described as being as much a part of the C system as "stdio". Can we consider a C compiler product complete K&R if it doesn't include lint? Nathan C. Myers Alan Batie