CPLU4.2 vs C-FP+

Jeff Hakner hak at cooper.cooper.EDU
Sun Sep 17 05:38:42 AEST 1989


	Our 3B2/400s are running an ATT C compiler called C-FP+,
which is about three years old.  C-FP+, I think, was the first
compiler to perform the magic needed to use the MAU on the 3B2.
Checking the ATT documentation catalog, I see no reference to
this compiler anymore, leading me to believe that it is discontinued.

	These days, everyone is talking about CPLU (C Programming
Language Utilities) 4.2 being the default 3B2 compiler.  What I
need to know before I go and get it is:
	1) What's the story with C-FP+
	2) Does CPLU4.2 support hardware floating point 
	3) Does CPLU4.2 support ANSI C (such as function prototypes),
			which C-FP+ does not.
	4) How is it?  Buggy?  Good?  Tolerable?

Answers and opinions will be greatly appreciated.

***********
Jeff Hakner 
The Cooper Union 

hak at meagan.cooper.edu
hak%meagan.cooper.edu at CMCL2.NYU.EDU



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