Ken Graham ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Dennis Handly ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: >There use to be only one language organization doing the work.  6 to 7
: >years ago, CSY went its own way.
: >So there is one group doing HP-UX (IA64 and PA) and one for MPE/iX.

: It is my understanding that this is not the case at least for C.
: There is one group doing the language and they do it for HP-UX, and
: secondarily
: for MPE.  That is why you can compile MPE C code on an HP-UX box, and bring
: the object modules over to the MPE to link them, and it works just fine.
: The argument from the lab against making any changes to the C compiler was
: that it was the same compiler as the one on HP-UX.

Dennis is correct.

HP C/HP-UX and HP C/iX have a common ancestry and still have much
in common.  Whenever there is a request to change a behavior in C/iX,
one of the factors considered is whether it would create an
incompatibility with C/HP-UX.

Walter Murray
Hewlett-Packard
HP C/iX