Antoine Leca wrote:
> En news:KKedndzrGaHRYnnbnZ2dnUVZ_gCdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wade Ward va
escriure:
>> I have had lcc on previous windows installations and found it useful,
>> despite claims to the contrary from True Believers in comp.lang.c.
>> It was where I found headers for C99 needs.
>>
>> How far has lcc come with C99?
>
> Nowhere, as far as I know. Pr. Fraser and Pr. Hanson slowed down the
work on
> lcc around 1996 (see the dates of the papers). In this timeframe, there
were
> no C99 standard available.
>
> Some provisions for some features of C99 are available within the 4.2
> (latest) version. However, they might give you false hope: for example,
a
> long long type is forecasted, but it is made equivalent to the long
type...
> Besides 64-bit arithmetic, other areas needing work are VLA, complexes,
> compounds literals and out-of-order initialisations, mixing declarations
and
> statements, the enhanced for, and small thingies like __func__ or
> hexadecimal floats.
>
All that is implemented in lcc-win32
>
> lcc-win32, the project of Jacob Navia, which is originally based on lcc
but
> includes a LOT of additional stuff, is more aimed at C99 compliance. And
it
> is still developped.
>
Sure !
:-)
>
>> If I wanted full compliance, I could lay out money for dinkumware
>
> As far as I know, Dinkumware makes libraries, and lcc is a
(freestanding)
> compiler. They are different animals. In fact, you need both in order to
> actually produce programs (and a preprocessor, and an assembler, and a
> linker, too.)
>
>
>> Will lcc likely be good enough in this respect for guys like me,
>> a cowboy on a keyboard?
>
> Sorry, I cannot make sense from your sentence.
> lcc is a tool to learn how to write compilers. If you are not in the job
of
> writing compilers, lcc is probably NOT "good enough" for you.
lcc-win32 is.
> And as I wrote, lcc's development sort-of stopped some years ago, so if
you
> are seeking bleeding-edge, this is probably not the good choice either.
>
>
lcc-win32 is the edge of development!
> Antoine
>
jacob
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