lah@raybed2.ray.com (LANCE HOLMES) (03/07/90)
I just got my update to Aztec manx C and thought I would try it out. I always find it interesting to recompile a program when I get the source to see if first I can in fact recompile it and also to see if I get a different size file for the executable. So I tried to recompile MicroEmacs 3.10. Well first of all, as any of you who have received their update know, Aztec has changed the options used with the compiler. So I modified the makefile and went on. The second problem the compiler had with the code was the use of some constants that were being returned. So not to spend a lot of time on this problem I changed them to variables and assumed that the program would treat them as constants anyway. The next problem the compiler had was with a statement in the module input.c . It said that the statement was to complex and that I should simplify it and recompile. Well I'm not and expert but I have a good understanding of C and couldn't see where the statement was all that complicated. I gave up after that error and feel that I going to hold on to version 3.6 of the Manx C compiler and docs for a while seeing how there does seem to be a variety of differences. Lance Holmes