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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
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Subject: Re: IBM 370 C compiler
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:09:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 02:09:56 1984
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> 	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