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From: w-darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek Mihocka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Laser C and TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <8028@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 02:29:33 GMT
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Reply-To: w-darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek Mihocka)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Re: Laser C 2.0 and TOS 1.4

Scott, as far as I know, there is no way to make Laser C 2.0 run on TOS 1.4.
I called Megamax about this way back when and what the guy told me is that
there never was a PATCH.PRG. They decided to fix up Laser C instead, which
eventually became Laser C 2.1. He also told me there was some way to
patch up the LASER.CFG file file but I tried many times and couldn't
figure out his instructions. (The byte pattern he told me to look for 
simply was not in the .CFG file). About 6 weeks later they finally shipped
version 2.1. They fixed a bunch of bugs but sadly enough, Laser C 2.1
still has serious code generation bugs that date back to the days of
Megamax C. I have reported these bugs to them several times and each time
they tell me they fixed them. They also refuse to put in an option to
turn off that stupid stupid STUPID disk cache in the shell. In more cases
than not, the desk cache actually SLOWS DOWN hard disk access, by a factor of
10 in some cases. I'd prefer if they got out of the disk cache business and
stuck to fixing up the compiler. I don't appreciate having a compiler generate
incorrect code on me, which is what Laser C will do the odd time. I just
stick to assembler for now while somebody writes a decent C compiler for
the ST.

- Darek

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