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From: silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: C Compilers -- GST specifically
Message-ID: <2302@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 19:48:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  1 19:48:38 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 22:39:33 EST
Reply-To: silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Organization: Marine Ecology Lab.
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Keywords: GST does not support structures

>I need a C compiler which is:
>The following points are not absolutely necessary but would be nice:
>3- Full K&R.
>Currently I am looking into these compilers:
>- GST C   (not full K&R)
>   	    Jack Bicer (Bicer.ES@Xerox.COM)

Most of the reviews of GST-C emphasize that it does not support floating
point, which is not terribly important for most systems programming
(except graphics).  However, when I took a look at the package I was
surprised to discover that it does not support structures (or unions).
I can't see much value in a compiler that doesn't implement one of the
most valuable features of modern programming languages and that
restricts the user to primitive data structures.