larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) (07/16/90)
ISC's new 2.2 release comes with a C compiler from LPI. The introduction in the manual does not give much of an excuse to use this new compiler. Some 'features' mentioned in the manual are ... . Standard libraries and header files are included. . Function prototypes are supported. . Compile time string concatenation is provided. . New preprocessing directives including stringize, token-paste, #elif, #error and defined() . inline code generation for some functions . const and volatile type qualifiers . auto initialization of aggregate types . void * supported . can call functions written in other LPI languages . annotated listing output with user symbols, cross reference and summary of compile stats . works with code-watch (an interactive debugger). And to top it all off, if you decide to use this new compiler, then you get to use the (much nicer) command lpicc, instead of just plain ol' cc. Does not sound too exciting to me. Did I just pay too much for the SDS (Software development system) package? :-| Or is ISC giving out a frebie here? -Larry