[TUHS] History of non-Bell C compilers?

[Luther Johnson]

Speaking of the CP/M and later DOS world, Aztec C was a very competent C
compiler. I recently put together a CP/M environment, and used the
latest version I could find of Aztec C, and it did just what I wanted it
to do.

On 03/07/2024 04:49 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 10:39:20AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>> MIT had several that were used for ka9q and at least the Venix x86 port.
>>> They supported the popular micros of the time. Various versions of them
>>> survive to the present day.
>> That reminds me: there was the Hi-Tech C Compiler for the Z-80 (CP/M); it
>> was full ANSI (unlike BDS C which barely supported C).
> Some people like to hate on BDS C, I'm not one of them.  It was a very
> fast compiler compared to other C compilers (Turbo Pascal was a lot
> faster, I remain impressed with that speed to this day).
>
> My memory is BDS C did C just fine, but had a very non standard standard
> I/O library.  I had relearn stdio when I got to Unix.  But I never had a
> problem with it not compiling C.
>