fraser@tekig5.UUCP (Jon Fraser) (12/01/84)
Anyone know where a C cross compiler for an IBM 370 can be obtained. Please send replies via mail to decvax!sii!trixie!fraser
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (12/07/84)
> > Anyone know where a C cross compiler for an IBM 370 > can be obtained. Please send replies via mail to > > decvax!sii!trixie!fraser People keep asking. I've yet to see one really usable although I hear there's a new one from Whitesmith's or Waterloo or something. The Bell one probably isn't to bad, but it runs only under MVS and I don't know of anyone who has done a successful VM/CMS conversion of it. Avoid the RSI C compiler like the plague. It is so buggy as to be unusable, and RSI is not interested in hearing about the bugs. It was something they through together to get Oracle running on the IBM and it had no right being released as a product. We have a stack over an inch thich of bugs for it. They include not only missing parts of the C language, and parts of the C language implemented wrong but things as basic as not being able to declare a two variables with the same name (like even if they are automatic variables in two different functions) and if you declare a variable like "R12" all hell breaks loose. -Ron