gillies@noao.arizona.edu (Kim Gillies X246) (05/30/88)
Does anybody out there use the latest version of Manx Aztec C as
advertised in the May MacTutor. According to their advertisement,
it has a lot of nice features including a new source level debugger.
Since I am an MPW user, I was particularly interested in the MPW
compatibility. The man on the phone said it both the compiler and
the Source Debugger (SDB) run as MPW tools. What is the extent
of MPW support. They also suggest that an optimizer is available
but I didn't ask when I called.
What are their views on strings in toolbox calls? Do they require
ctop and ptoc kinds of functions?
I know they are historically the most Unix-like of the C environments
running on the Mac but I don't really want to use it if it won't run
under MPW so this isn't a factor in my decision to buy it. A source
level debugger might be kind of nice and MPW 3.0 won't be around for
a while.
If you use Aztec C and have experience with it as an MPW tool write
me please. I will summarize if I get some responses.
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Kim Gillies
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