matsl@nada.kth.se (Mats Luthman) (01/29/89)
I would like to have some brief information on C-compilers currently available for the ST. I am iterested in compilation speed (especially when run on a hard disk if that has an influence on it), prices, kind of user interface, if there is a lint function or support for prototypes and so on.
edwin@ruuinf.UUCP (Edwin Kremer) (01/30/89)
In article <775@draken.nada.kth.se>, matsl@nada.kth.se (Mats Luthman) writes: > I would like to have some brief information on C-compilers currently > available for the ST. I am iterested in compilation speed (especially > when run on a hard disk if that has an influence on it), prices, > kind of user interface, if there is a lint function or support for > prototypes and so on. Turbo C is fast (sorry, no hard statistics); I've seen comparison against Mark Williams, Lattice, Laser and Aztec. Turbo C beats them all, although MWC has much better debug facilities. Turbo C is rather cheap, in the Netherlands around Dfl. 250,-, which is about $120 Two user interfaces: one for commandline Shell freak, the other window GEM oriented (like Turbo C for MS-DOS). Supports prototyping (it's use strongly recommended), is full ANSI standard. Fast execution, uses registers for passing parameters to a function rather than the stack. Functions that have a variable number of arguments are an exeception to this, of course... --[ Edwin ]-- -- Edwin Kremer, Department of Computer Science, University of Utrecht Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Phone: +31 - 30 - 534104 | UUCP : ...!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin "I speak for myself ..." | INTERNET: edwin@cs.ruu.nl
c60c-3ds@web-3c.berkeley.edu (John Kawakami) (01/31/89)
In article <1089@ruuinf.UUCP> edwin@ruuinf.UUCP (Edwin Kremer) writes: >Turbo C is rather cheap, in the Netherlands around Dfl. 250,-, which is >about $120 > Are there English instruction manuals (aka documentation) for Turbo C? And is Borland's support significant enough to wait for a U.S. release? (Or is their support not worth waiting for). John Kawakami
edwin@ruuinf.UUCP (Edwin Kremer) (02/01/89)
In article <19722@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, c60c-3ds@web-3c.berkeley.edu (John Kawakami) writes: > In article <1089@ruuinf.UUCP> edwin@ruuinf.UUCP (Edwin Kremer) writes: > >Turbo C is rather cheap, in the Netherlands around Dfl. 250,-, which is > >about $120 > > > Are there English instruction manuals (aka documentation) for Turbo C? > And is Borland's support significant enough to wait for a U.S. release? > (Or is their support not worth waiting for). > > John Kawakami As far as I know, the only documentation is 660 pages paperback instruction manual, describing the implementation, the user environments and all libraries (stdlib, toslib and gemlib). Unfortunately, the book is entirely written in German, which is *really* annoying. This is what I understood from an article in a Dutch Atari magazine: Borland USA supplied the parser, Heimsoeth Germany (Munich) did the real compiler design. No flames if this isn't true !!!!! You know, most of us Dutchies have been tought German language at school and have only little problem to read and understand German writing, also due to the fact that the Netherlands border on Western Germany, but no doubt I'm really looking forward for an English version.... --[ Edwin ]-- -- Edwin Kremer, Department of Computer Science, University of Utrecht Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Phone: +31 - 30 - 534104 | UUCP : ...!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin "I speak for myself ..." | INTERNET: edwin@cs.ruu.nl