23 Apr
2017
23 Apr
'17
2:13 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 07:07:13AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Clem Cole wrote:
I've never heard of Hi-Tech C but I am apparently more forgiving. I spent
many happy hours using BDS C. It wasn't exactly standard, the standard
I/O library was far from compat, but whatever, it was a C compiler on
a CP/M system. Pretty pleasant.
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.