landay@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James A. Landay) (08/18/88)
Does anyone know anything about Aztec C for the ST. I am considering
buying a compiler and it is between Aztec and MWC. I haven't seen
any reviews on Aztec. How good is the Unix portability? (I have a feeling
my program may never have a market on the Atari the way they are handling
it.) How is the debugger compared to MWC CSD.
Need to know soon (Aztec has a deal ending Aug. 31)
By the way, does anyone know if Iliad Software has gone under? They haven't
answered their phone the several times I have called in the last 3 weeks.
Thanks,
James A. Landay
ARPA: landay@cory.berkeley.edu
..!ucbvax!cory!landaygert@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gert Poletiek) (08/23/88)
In article <5099@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> landay@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James A. Landay) writes: >Does anyone know anything about Aztec C for the ST. I am considering >buying a compiler and it is between Aztec and MWC. I haven't seen >any reviews on Aztec. How good is the Unix portability? (I have a feeling >my program may never have a market on the Atari the way they are handling >it.) How is the debugger compared to MWC CSD. > >[stuff deleted] > >James A. Landay > I own the MWC compiler version 3.0 and worked with the Aztec C compiler on the ST as well as on a Mac II. You should definately buy MWC. The CSD debugger is excellent and the compiler itself good. The Aztec C compiler is bug ridden. Having found some code genrator bugs while working with Aztec on a MacII I tried to reproduce these bugs on the ST version. And guess what? Same compiler->> same bugs; even though I had already reported them to Manx (the company marketing Aztec). This simple one liner crashes the Aztec C compiler on the ST (address error): main () { *(int *)1 = 0; } Compilers that crash when compiling this I do not trust anymore... Go for MWC: it well worth the money. Gert Poletiek NIKHEF-H, Dutch National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics Kruislaan 409, P.O.Box 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, The Netherlands UUCP: {decvax,cernvax,unido,seismo}!mcvax!nikhefh!gert bitnet: nikhefh!gert@mcvax.bitnet, U00025@hasara5.bitnet From september 1st 1988: Gert Poletiek Dept. of Math. and Computing Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 409, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands UUCP: {decvax,cernvax,unido,seismo}!mcvax!uva!gert bitnet: uva!gert@mcvax.bitnet, U00025@hasara5.bitnet