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Aucbvax.5211 fa.info-vax utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Mon Nov 16 13:18:00 1981 VMS C compiler >From mo@LBL-UNIX Mon Nov 16 12:35:44 1981 The DEC C compiler is NOT free!!! It is a product being funded by the Unix engineering group inside DEC. We are a test site for the compiler and the current reactions are mixed. The code generation is nothing to brag about, in fact, often worse than the Unix compiler for routine expressions (in spite of much optimizer screwing around). What is worse, the run-time system is horrid. It will also be broken by VMS 3.0 (which we are also a test-site for). When it is finally announced, it will cost MONEY. We will talk more about the compiler as experience accumulates. -Mike

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