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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice 5.04 Announcement
Message-ID: <8910152133.AA20374@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 15 Oct 89 21:33:45 GMT
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:In article <1276@sas.UUCP> walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) writes:
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:   Lattice Ships Free Compiler Upgrades 
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:Gee, whatever happened to Manx?
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:David Masterson					Consilium, Inc.
:uunet!cimshop!davidm				Mt. View, CA  94043

	Well, Aztec sent me 4.9a Beta.  It offers many features
    similar to Lattice's 5.02/5.04 compilers the most important of
    which is full-ANSI conformation.  Also has #pragma, declaration
    of registered args, etc...  The new Aztec C will conform to
    the register standard (D0-D1/A0-A1 scratch only) but will keep
    its custom object file format.  Lots of other features just as in
    Lattice.  The default will be 32 bit ints instead of 16 but both 
    are supported.

	As of 4.9a my impression is maybe another 2 months.

	I don't compare speeds anymore... it's stupid.  Nobody is going
    to notice the difference.  Aztec will remain premium in packing it
    into two executables (cc/as).  Lattice has a hands down jump on
    Aztec but I think Aztec does better register allocation than 
    Lattice (with or without Lattice's GO).

					-Matt