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Aucbvax.5112 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Wed Nov 11 13:25:09 1981 Whitesmiths C compilers >From gwyn@UTEXAS-11 Wed Nov 11 12:47:31 1981 I just got on this mailing list and so I missed what has been said about Whitesmiths compilers, but I can support Ron Minnich's comments as to the usability of this product. While not perfect (what is?), Whitesmiths C system is nicely engineered for portability (have you tried making other C compilers run on and/or generate code for several systems?). Geotronics has a small UNIX and cannot run "lint", but I have often gotten good diagnostics from Whitesmiths C that have solved some rather obscure coding problems... The generated code is generally the same as that from the 7th Edition Ritchie compiler, sometimes slightly better (on a PDP-11 -- I don't have an 8080). The library routines are more orthogonal than their UNIX equivalents (although stdio is needed for portability, and is on the way, I am told). The next-to-last C Letter has a "printf" in it for people who want one. At the Austin USENIX conference I watched Whitesmiths people moving files from system to system via floppy disk and getting things to work together this way. In my experience that is a real accomplishment. -------

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