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- From: moss@cs.cmu.edu (Eliot Moss)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: ANSI C compiler for DECstation Ultrix 4.3
- Message-ID: <MOSS.92Dec13150335@CRAFTY.cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 20:03:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: CRAFTY.MOSS.92Dec13150335
- References: <1992Dec9.143551.3464@nic.csu.net> <1992Dec11.082303.16638@dd.dk>
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- Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst)
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- In-Reply-To: maki@jit.dec.com's message of Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:18:03 GMT
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- >>>>> On Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:18:03 GMT, maki@jit.dec.com (Watanabe Maki) said:
-
- Watanabe> In article <MOSS.92Dec12125414@CRAFTY.cs.cmu.edu> moss@cs.cmu.edu
- Watanabe> (Eliot Moss) writes:
-
- > The GNU C compiler is also ANSI compliant and is available for free. You can
- > get it from prep.ai.mit.edu via anonymous ftp .... EM
-
- Watanabe> But take care for that the GNU C is not suitable to write the
- Watanabe> "strict ANSI C" code. ( according to its manual. )
-
- Technically the respondent is correct, but with the -ansi and -pedantic flags
- you pretty much have strict ANSI compliance. Anyway, I suspect the requester
- was not so much interested in a compiler that tosses out every program with
- non-ANSI features as one that supports all ANSI features. If that is the case,
- then gcc meets the criteria.
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