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From: donw@zehntel.zehntel.com (Don White)
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Subject: Re: C reference needed
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Date: 13 Oct 89 23:01:00 GMT
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In article <125952@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <8910052039.AA14159@jade.berkeley.edu> (Shan Mcarthur) writes:
>>I have Lattice Cv4.1 and the manual.  It is a great compiler but I do not like
>>their documentation.   The functions that they did document were done very
>
>Can you give an example of a function that Lattice provided that they didn't
>document? I'm only guessing, but are you talking about the Amiga specific

     Chuck, I think I see Shans complaint. Two or three years ago when I was
  first learning C, I was learning on my Amiga with Lattice. Lattice provides
  EVERYTHING including the Amy libraries. BUT (and this is a big but!) they 
  sort of assumed you knew the difference between standard library functions
  and Amiga library functions. They thoroughly documented the standard stuff
  and just barely told you the Amiga stuff was there (amiga.lib was used in
  an example). This was frustrating because I kept tripping over whether the
  functions I was trying to use were Lattice or Amiga, and what did the Amiga
  stuff do?  Fortunately, I hooked up with the ROM Kernal books before I killed
  myself ;-)

     I guess my point here is that if they provide the libraries maybe they 
  should be expected to provide at least cursory documentation? 

     At this point with the function prototyping of Lattice version 5 something
  and Rob Pecks' book on programming (and of course the RKMs) I feel I can 
  pretty much do what I need to.

     Don White - Box 271177 Concord, CA. 94527-1177
     zehtnel!donw

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