LPI-C, why?

Larry Williamson larry at focsys.uucp
Mon Jul 16 16:18:45 AEST 1990


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. 

Some 'features' mentioned in the manual are ...
. Standard libraries and header files are included.
. Function prototypes are supported.
. Compile time string concatenation is provided.
. New preprocessing directives including stringize, token-paste,
  #elif, #error and defined()
. inline code generation for some functions
. const and volatile type qualifiers
. auto initialization of aggregate types
. void * supported
. can call functions written in other LPI languages
. annotated listing output with user symbols, cross reference and
  summary of compile stats
. works with code-watch (an interactive debugger).

And to top it all off, if you decide to use this new compiler, then
you get to use the (much nicer) command lpicc, instead of just plain
ol' cc.

Does not sound too exciting to me.

Did I just pay too much for the SDS (Software development system)
package? :-|
Or is ISC giving out a frebie here?

-Larry



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