nathan@orstcs.UUCP (12/08/83)
#N:orstcs:8500004:000:839 orstcs!nathan Dec 6 03:01:00 1983 We have the CI-86 C compiler from Computer Innovations, on an IBM-PC. It seems to compile complete Version "6.5" C, but has some serious difficulties yet. Those that should be of interest to Unix users: It does not support structure/union assignment or passing. it does not allow lines like # define x x (it does not allow a space after the pound sign.) Both the above are produced by yacc, meaning that you can't write a parser on your vax and download the code to your PC without massaging the output code "somewhat". Also, it is shipped in "pre-linked" form, so even if you write new "file stream" library routines to replace the (very slow) ones provided, you still can't speed up the compiler. Finally, the "optimizing" update was due 6 months ago, and is still not in sight (although it has been advertised for some time...).