ctk@ecsvax.UUCP (10/11/84)
Hello again. Does anybody out there know about the C compiler now sold by IBM for the PC line? I've been told that it's the Microsoft (Lattice) compiler. Is it the latest version? Is the exec( ) bug I've been reading about fixed in that version? Is it faster than the CI compiler? Does it generate better code? I have the CI compiler at home and my wife has the Lattice compiler at her job. I'm looking for something that we can use in a mathematics department for both low level utility stuff and for research that requires lots of floating point work. Does the IBM compiler take advantage of the 80(2)87? IBM is offering us a pretty good deal and I'm tempted to go that way unless some one tells me a real horror story (like -- remember Fortran v1.0 for the Pc.) C.T. Kelley Dept. of Math. N.C. State U. Box 8205 Raleigh, N.C. 27695-8205 919-737-3300 decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!ctk