23 Apr
2017
23 Apr
'17
5:59 a.m.
That interesting Dave. I had not heard of people that did not like it. I did not think
Henry's comment was about Leor's work.
FWIW: I can not say I personally pushed it as hard as i did other compilers later in my
career but it always worked fine for me on the z80 and worked better than the Teletype
corp z80 compiler which was the first one I saw
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Apr 22, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Clem Cole wrote:
Leor Zolman had a little firm her in NE called Brain Damaged Software
(BDS) and he wrote and marketed a full C compiler called BDS C -
http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html [ which is now freely
available - including the sources]. For years Leor's compiler was the
de facto standard K&R style C compiler for the 8080/z80 systems for CP/M
and such systems. [What was important, is that until Leor, the CP/M
community was using something called "Small C" which was a sub-set of
the language. Leor managed to get V7/K&R into a 8080].
We must be talking about a different BDS C.
I remember BDS C for all the wrong reasons; I can only repeat a remark
from Henry Spencer about another alleged C compiler: "To be called a C
compiler, it ought to at least be able to compile C." My Z-80 C compiler
was Hi-Tech C, which was full ANSI.
My favourite test of any language is "can it process itself?".
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