aron (10/28/82)
Here is a summary of stuff I got so far on Z-80 Cs. If I get more
I'll post an updated summary. Does anyone know anything about
Supersoft C? I saw an ad for it in BYTE?
aron shtull-trauring
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Subject: C for Z-80; one to avoid
The Software Toolworks' C/80. Although not completely unusable
(I've been using it a lot for text processing development), its
I/O is simply not good. Aside from the fact that they're using
V6 semantics (fin and fout!), output to the screen is a complete
special case, regardless of what you do. E.g., putchar(c) is
NOT equivalent to putc(c, fout); the former works, whereas the
latter fails with unpredictable results. I've heard good things
about BDS C and the Aztec II C compiler, but have no first hand
experience with either. If you get some information, you may
want to consider posting a summary; I, for one, would be in
interested in alternatives to what we have.
Steve Knight
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Subject: Re: C for Z-80 machines
The best seems to be Aztec C II from Manx Software.
It implements all of Kernighan & Ritchie, and its I/O library looks
like stdio.
For $195, you get two compilers, one for 8080/8085 and one for Z80
("register" declarations use BC, IX, IY).
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