Date   : Wed, 06 Oct 1982 00:31:28 EST (Wednesday)
From   : Cal Thixton <tj@Okc-Unix>
Subject: Re: C Compilers

I ordered the manuals for the Whitesmith's C compiler back
when I was looking for a good C compiler for my CP/M system.
Several things turned me off to them. The compiler requires
60K to run. Becuase of this, you had to do a cold boot to get
back to CP/M. The compiler itself is a full C compiler, initializers,
statics, floats, macro subs, etc. ( I am not sure if they have
implemented the additions from UCB like structure assignments
and enum's) but what I heard from friends was that the
compiler producted 'buggy' code for 8080's. 'Buggy' was a relative
and obscure term. I do know that NONE of thier libraries
are compatible with UNIX libraries. They totally re-wrote
everything from printf's to exit's. Hence, nothing is really
portable, unless you just trash thier libraries. The price
was also, for a hacker, a little high.

                       Cal - - tj