logex@altger.UUCP (logex) (10/26/88)
in article 1944, ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'keefe) says
that there are several C compilers for the IBM 381, some of the compilers
that are NOT public domain, he says are the Whitesmith's one, the
one thats made by the SAS Institute (Lattice). He also mentions that
theres one C compiler but that has to be completed to make it generate
IBM 4381 code, this one is the GNU, GCC compiler and apparently is free
or/and public domain.
Does any out there could mail me the addresses of Whitesmith and SAS,
in order to request more informatin about their C compilers and besides
that, where i can get a copy of the GNU (GCC) compiler ??, I dont
really know if we will buy a C compiler from the sources mentioned, but
in the mean i am interested in the GNU.
Please respond by mail if you are sending me files, i just one a single
copy of it ! :-)
Thanks in advance.
Ed
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In article <1091@altger.UUCP> logex@altger.UUCP (logex)
[asks for information about C compilers on IBM mainframes]
I have directed this followup to comp.lang.c as well, as the
question has been asked there before.
IBM part numbers for IBM C manuals
SC09-1128-01 C Language Manual
SC09-1129-01 C Compiler User's Guide for MVS, MVS/XA
SC09-1130-01 C Compiler User's Guide for VM/CMS
The compiler is called "IBM C for System/370 Program Offering",
products 5713-AAG and 5713-AAH.
The address on the manuals we have is
IBM Canada Ltd,
Information Development,
Department 849,
1150 Eglinton Ave East,
North York,
Ontario,
Canada M3C 1W3.
You will probably want to get
SC26-4353-0 Systems Application Architecture,
Common Programming Interface,
C Reference
This is really meant for IBM C/2 for the PS/2, but as with other SAA
manuals it gives you a synoptic view of that and the mainframe products,
so you know which things are portable within the IBM world.
The SAS/Lattic C compiler is called
Lattice C Native Compiler as Modified by
SAS Institute Inc. for IBM 370 Systems.
SAS Institute Inc.,
Box 8000,
Cary,
NC 27511-8000
(919)467-8000
The NorCroft C compiler is "a re-targetable, optimising ANSI (draft)
C compiler", which "produces either or both ibm object modules or
assemblable listing". On an IBM 3084 running MVS/XA it gets "Dhrystone
figures over 23K", and "can compile 0.6mb of source in less than 1 minute cpu."
NorCroft is a trading name of a startup company (Codemist Ltd)
formed by three academics:
Prof J.P. Fitch, Dept of Computer Science, Bath University, UK
Dr. A. Mycroft, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
Email: am@cl.cam.ac.uk,
phone +44 223 334621 (office)
Dr. A.C. Norman, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
Email: acn1@phx.cam.ac.uk,
phone +44 223 338550 (office)
FAX: +44 223 334748 (marked attention Dr. Mycroft/Norman Computer Lab).
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I know Alan Mycroft, and we have used SAS Lattice C, but I have no other
connection with any of these companies.