23 Apr
2017
23 Apr
'17
3:07 a.m.
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?".
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."