HELLER@cs.umass.EDU (Stride 440 User) (11/27/87)
I have discovered that I need a better C compiler for my system. I presently use the compiler supplied by DRI with CP/M-68K v1.2 (Alcyon). It works ok and generates reasonable code. The primitiveness of this compiler has struck home when I tried to compile BISON, a PD YACC clone put out by GNU. My compiler barfs over this. Unless I make major changes (virtually re-write the code), I won't be able to port this beast to CP/M-68K. The only other C compiler I know of for CP/M-68K is Whitesmiths, which has problems of its own (non-standard library functions and include files, amoung other things). What I'd like would be something like MicroSoft C 5.0, but for CP/M-68K. Or maybe Mark Williams C (who does make a 68000 C compiler, but for Atari ST's). Does anyone out there is ARPANet land know if either of these companies make a C compiler for CP/M-68K? I'd just as soon buy a commerical compiler - a PD one (unless running under CP/M-68K) would need to be ported and would probably almost as much work as re-writing BISON. Robert Heller ARPA: Heller@CS.UMass.EDU BITNET: Heller@UMass.BITNET BIX: Heller GEnie: RHeller FidoNet: 321/148 CompuServe: 71450,3432