[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Chris]

On 08/05/18 14:38, Craig A. Berry wrote:

>
> Things such as file I/O that are not in libc on most systems. However,
> those systems tend to have C-friendly syscalls, so you still wouldn't
> need assembler.

Such functions are in the standard C library: fopen, fwrite, fread,
fclose, for example. Core functionality in all C libraries that I
have seen.

Those functions and more are all needed for a compiler  get it's
work done. Otherwise, how do you read the source files and save the
results ?...

Chris