A/UX cc -- a ghost from the past
Paul Sander
paul at athertn.Atherton.COM
Thu Feb 14 06:56:39 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb13.122652.14565 at helios.physics.utoronto.ca> sysmark at physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) writes:
[some other guy writes:]
>| Horror of horrors! After converting all my beautifully prototyped
>| mac interface programs to port over to AUX, I find that the AUX
>| compiler is some prehistoric monster that doesn't respect the ANSI
>| 'standard'. Is there some kind of filter available to convert programs
>| from ANSI to old format?
>
>So, a couple of questions (aside from the obvious one, namely how does
>Apple expect to be taken seriously if a recent major release of their
>UNIX product doesn't even contain an X3J11 compliant compiler) ...
[stuff omitted]
>(2) Apple folks: Are there plans to step into the 1990s with the
>next release of A/UX? Will a "modern" C compiler come with 2.0.1,
>or will we have to wait for 2.1 (or 3.0; or ...)?
Please remember that A/UX is a port of System V Release 2, which is older
than the X3J11 standard. Until Apple can support a release of Unix that is
more recent than X3J11, I think we'll be stuck with old compilers. I
understand that System V Release 4 supplies an X3J11 compliant compiler.
Since some of Apple's lower-priced competition (i.e. Amiga) is rumored to
support post-beta SVR4 in March, I suspect we won't have to wait too long
before we start seeing software that is a little bit more modern.
>(3) As to the question of converting an ANSI C program, complete
>with function prototypes, into something that can be shoved through
>an old-fashioned C compiler: I could probably cobble together some
>sort of shell script, with judicious use of awk/sed/whatever, that
>would do the job. But, before I embark on this silly exercise, it
>seems worth inquiring as to whether anyone else already has such a
>tool. If so, I'd appreciate hearing about it/them.
GhostScript, the Free Software Foundation's PostScript clone, supplies a
program that converts ANSI compliant C programs to K&R as part of its build
and install tools.
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