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From: HELLER@cs.umass.EDU (Stride 440 User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k.pc
Subject: Is there a better C compiler for CP/M-68K?
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Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 17:22:00 EST
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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
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