LPI-C, why?

[Karl Heuer]

In article <LARRY.90Jul16161846 at focsys.uucp> larry at focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) writes:
>ISC's new 2.2 release comes with a C compiler from LPI.  The
>introduction in the manual does not give much of an excuse to use this
>new compiler.

Plain cc is more or less as it's always been; lpicc is intended to be ANSI
compliant.  I imagine some customers have ANSI C programs they'd like to be
able to compile.

>Does not sound too exciting to me.

If you're not interested in ANSI C, then by all means keep using the old one.
That's why we ship it under a separate name instead of just overwriting cc.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint
(I'm not speaking for ISC, of course.)