Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!7103_300
From: 7103_300@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Laser C and TOS 1.4
Message-ID: <3910.253666e2@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 14 Oct 89 02:51:14 GMT
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In article <8028@microsoft.UUCP>, w-darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek Mihocka) writes:
> [ some very accurate comments on Laser ]
>    ... I just
> stick to assembler for now while somebody writes a decent C compiler for
> the ST.

I agree with you on Laser; it had promise, but the buggy code generation,
incomplete library, and weird disk cache eventually caused me to give
up on it. Fortunately, there is an alternative; the GNU C Compiler. It's
a huge memory pig (you really need 2 megabytes to run it) but it produces
very good code, is ANSI compatible, and now comes with an (almost) ANSI
and Unix compatible library. And the price is right... it's free! (Source
is available too, and it's being actively supported by the Free Software
Foundation). The current version is 1.36, available from dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu
and (I think) terminator.
--
Eric Smith
ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca
ersmith@uwovax.bitnet