lamy@sobeco.com (j.lamy) (08/23/90)
Anyone at Mips care to comment on why the user documentation set contains the STREAMS programmer's guide but omits the language and compilers guide (where the debugger is documented!). Last I checked, Mips was still shipping a C compiler and dbx standard with their systems, and I think that there is a marginally wider interest in that sort of stuff than in STREAMS programming. Having to fork off $$$ to get a manual for such basic information as using the debugger and tips to write efficient code seems absurd. Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@sobeco.com, uunet!sobeco!lamy Groupe Sobeco, 505 ouest, bd Rene-Levesque, Montreal Canada H2Z 1Y7
rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) (08/24/90)
In article <1990Aug23.012658.6253@sobeco.com> lamy@sobeco.com (j.lamy) writes: >Anyone at Mips care to comment on why the user documentation set >contains the STREAMS programmer's guide but omits the language and >compilers guide (where the debugger is documented!). Last I checked, >Mips was still shipping a C compiler and dbx standard with their systems, >and I think that there is a marginally wider interest in that sort of >stuff than in STREAMS programming. > >Having to fork off $$$ to get a manual for such basic information >as using the debugger and tips to write efficient code seems absurd. I agree, I believe this is a packaging error. I have proposed that the STREAMS book be moved to the optional programmer's set, and the RISCompiler/C Programmer's Guide (and possibly the Porting Guide) be moved to the RISC/os set. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. MS 6-05 950 DeGuigne Dr. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 +1 408 524-7421 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I'm the NLA" "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." - Oscar Wilde