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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: C to JVM, time to revive JGNAT?
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:43:35 +0200
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On Thu, 9 Aug 2006 Napi wrote:

"Colin Paul Gloster wrote:
[..]
> yet AMPC is released only as versions depending on a specific platform, so
> will not even run on all Java platforms. If platform independence is not
> good enough to distribute AMPC, why is it good enough for AMPC's users?

The compiler/IDE itself comes in three versions (Linux, Mac OSX, and MS
Windows), but the generated code (.class files) should be able to run
on any properly installed JVM/JRE.  In other words, AMPC is a
cross-compiler suite whose development platforms are Linux, Mac OSX,
and MS Windows, all targeting the platform-independent JVM."

Hello,

I had understood that.

"> Also, from WWW.AxiomSol.com/pro_serv/compiler.php :
>
> "[..]
>
> AMPC allows users to develop software using the standard C programming
> language [..]
>
> [..]
>
> AMPC covers a very large subset of ANSI C (1989). A notable difference is
> that "double" in AMPC is 32 bits long. In order to utilize 64-bit
> floating point you can use "DOUBLE".
>
> [..]"
>
> So though AMPC is described as standard in one part of the documentation,
> it is not standard and someone's interpretation of what the C standard
> even is seems to be amiss.

The ANSI C standard [..]"

ANSI C is not from 1989 as ANSI has a policy of replacing a standard 
after approximately ten years. ANSI C is dated 1999.