Date   : Mon, 20 Mar 1989 19:38:34 GMT
From   : eve.usc.edu!mlinar@oberon.usc.edu (Mitch Mlinar)
Subject: Small C

In article <8903201146.AA00867@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> PC3@IB.RL.AC.UK (Paul
Clayson) writes:
>Does anybody use Small C? I'm using the CP/M version available from
>the Simtel20 PD archives. Does anybody have any information on what
>is/is not available in small C, as I cannot get it to compile
>multidimentional arrays, DO-WHILE, FOR or SWITCH-CASE. Are these
>not available or do I need to know more on how to use them in Small C?

Yep, the documentation is quite clear in what it has as well as what it
is missing.  Items *NOT* supported in SmallC v1.2 are:

       - for
       - do/while
       - switch/case/default
       - multiple dimension arrays
       - goto
       - float (although it does support double)
       - structures
       - unions
       - multiple indirections (two or more * such as **i)
       - assignment operators (+= -= *= etc.)
       - storage classes
       - precompiler stuff other than #define/#include/#asm/#endasm
       - declaring a function AND its function type in the same line
               (e.g. double foo(i) int i; /* will not work */)
       - probably other things too

For a free compiler and a learning tool (you get the source code), it
is pretty decent.

-Mitch