Survey of C Compilers

[Stanley Friesen]

In article <613 at looking.UUCP> brad at looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>
>I have used several C compilers in my projects and here are the summaries:
>
>1) Microsoft C
>	The winner:
>		- Ansi C style argument type checking.
>2) Lattice C
>	This is one of the best selling and it is well supported.
>	The original version was unacceptable.   It lacked things like
>	"unsigned int" (you just said unsigned) and structure assignment.
>	Not much hope of compiling Unix style programs.
>
>	They have a new release which supposedly fixes these problems and
>	brings it up to a similar level with Microsoft C.  I have not played
>	with this one.  Supposedly they also have a Xenix version.
>
	Yes, the new release fixes these problems. It also has a pcc
compatible void type(i.e. void functions only) and Ansi C style argument
type checking. Furthermore the delivered library is much larger and
more useful. It now contains most of the important routines from the
Ansi draft standard and the Sys V interface specification, as well as
support for most of the features of MS-Dos up through version 3.1. A
vast improvement.
>
>
>6) Wizard C.
>	No personal experience, but friends say it is fairly good.  From too
>	small a company if this matters to you, though.
>
	Yes, it is fairly good, and support is *mostly* fairly decent.
One nice feature is its extended Large Model(called Huge Model),
unfortunately that model is somewhat buggy. The latest release also
has a significant bug in Large Model floating point arithmetic, for
which we are waiting for a fix.
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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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