simpsong@cwruecmp.UUCP (Gregory R. Simpson) (09/29/85)
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I am interested in buying a C compiler of the ibm compatible
type... Any recommendations? My primary concern is the ability
to link with other languages (like fortran {oh no})
I am also interested in any feedback about the performance of
an ibm pc-xt using xenix. Basically, Can you cc in the background
and still not out type vi? Or some other common single user
multi-tasking operation. Please send replies directly to me via
mail, and I can post a summary. Flames are invited if I posted
this in an improper news group, (I love mail anyway)
Note, please send response to the address below, because
my case account may have evaporated by the time this is distributed.
Thanks in advance,
Greg Simpson
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Or... ARPA: simpsong@purdue-ecn.ARPAmichael%cit-vlsi@CIT-VAX.ARPA (Michael Lichter) (10/04/85)
I am looking for a C compiler that will run under 4.2BSD
on VAX and Sun, and under Xenix on a 286/310 (this last is least
important) producing code for both 8086 and 80286 target
machines, which run a custom operating system. Since I will be
writing system software with this, I would like the ability
to imbed assembly code. This should preferably produce Intel-format
source and object code, and be mated with a reasonable assembler
and linker. Since I will also be writing applications with this,
I would also like a fairly normal Unix-like C library. It would
also be very helpful if it used Unix format libraries.
I talked to OASYS, who markets a Wizard C Compiler which
sounds like what I want, but it's fairly expensive, especially
considering that it's per-cpu priced, and we have quite a few cpus.
Has anyone out there had experience with the Wizard C Compiler?
If you have a different system to recommend, please let me know.
Please reply to me, and I will summarize to the net if enough
others are interested. Also, any comments from people who have
written operating systems for the 286 in C would be appreciated.
Michael Lichter
Caltech Computer Science
michael@cit-vlsi.arpa
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