chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (09/10/85)
I got a letter from the Consulair people today. They are announcing a
couple of new things:
o they are now releasing an optimizing linker librarian for use with
Mac C and the Apple MDS (Macintosh Development System, written by
Consulair for Apple). It optimizes the final stage compilation, removes
unused code, creates libraries of shard code and you can now directly
include Mac resources in an application without using Rmaker or Rmove.
It requires a Fat Mac, and the linker costs $80.00.
o They are also releasing Mac C 4.0. This is a floating point version
that no longer requires MDS. It has a build in assembler that will
accept MDS source and produce output for the new linker, a new Compile
and Go feature that will compile, assemble, link, and run your
application with a single selection. Code generation is enhanced and
produces code about 5% smaller than Mac C 2.0.
Upgrade to 4.0 from 2.0 (the first floating point release) is free with the
purchase of the new linker, which is required for its operation, and you'll
get the linker, compiler, toolkit, documentation, and an examples disk.
This must be done through Consulair and not dealers
Upgrading from 1.0 or 1.5 (neither floating point) is $45.00 on top of the
linker cost, or $50 if you bought the new linker through a dealer.
I'm glad to see MacC move away from MDS, since that means the compiler no
longer needs the added $175 or so to run (I'm actually still using the
pre-release MDS shipped with early MacC compilers in hopes of this
happening). It looks like the better code generation will create smaller
and faster applications (time to re-benchmark...) and the new librarian
linker has been long needed (we had those back in the days of the 8080, I
can't see how Apple left that out...). If you have MacC, you ought to
upgrade, if not, this compiler, whihc was quite bood before, is even more
competitive.
More information can be gotten from Consulair, (415) 851-3272.
(note: I have no ties to consulair except as a satisfied customer. If you
tell them I sent you, they'll probably wonder what you're talking about)
chuq
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