Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: mwesth@elaine.ee.und.ac.za (M.J. VAN DER WESTHUIZEN : PGRADS)
Subject: Is the C toolset's compiler an Occam preprocessor?
Organization: Elec. Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 16:53:02 GMT
Message-ID: <mwesth.28.762627182@elaine.ee.und.ac.za>

Hi all transputer users,

Occasionally when my transputer board overheats, the C compiler generates 
garbage error messages (I know it is overheating because merely opening my 
PC and adding a fan relieves the problem, closing it and removing the fan 
repeats the problem).  The interresting point is that within the (
mostly nonsense) error messages, I detect many Occam statements! (eg '
REAL32' etc).  I can understand this if the compiler merely acts as a "
translator" as many FORTRAN compilers are merely translating to C on early 
Unix systems.  It would make also make sense to design the compiler in that 
way when in-line OCCAM code segments is supported (it is with the Toolset 
Compiler). 

Any comments?

