mas@teddy.UUCP (Mark A. Swanson) (04/19/85)
We need a good PDP-11 C compiler which implements at least certain parts of the new ANSI X3J11 draft standard. In particular, we are interested in abiity to do real arithmatic in "float" the standard library (or as much as fits on RSX-11M+ or PDP-11 UNIX) friendly behavior when globals are multiply declared (e.g. does not require One And Only One initialized declaration) volatile and const declarations function argument templates Support of unsigned char & unsigned long types in roughly that order of importance. (Symbolic debugging, I&D space, support and code quality also of great interest. We expect to pay serious money.) Interested in both RSX-11M(+) and UNIX compilers and/or cross compilers. If I hear anything I will summarize non-proprietary info to the net. (Incidentally, does anyone know when the expected flood of beta/final versions of X3J11 compilers for 32 bit CPU's will hit the market?) Mark Swanson ...decvax!genrad!panda!mas GenRad, MS #6 300 Baker Ave Concord, MA 01742
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (04/22/85)
> (Incidentally, does anyone know when the expected flood of beta/final > versions of X3J11 compilers for 32 bit CPU's will hit the market?) Don't hold your breath. Remember that X3J11 is *not* a standard yet, it is merely a draft. The current drafts carry an explicit request that conformance to them be neither specified nor claimed, precisely because they are not the final word. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry