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From: tmb@davinci.acc.Virginia.EDU (Thomas M. Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: PC Compilers
Message-ID: <1990Jan19.141024.16070@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 19 Jan 90 14:10:24 GMT
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I am interested in finding a newer, faster M2 compiler for some applications
created under the Logitech PC compiler.

TopSpeed?, Stonybrook?, <other>?, is there a new Logitech?

I'd appreciate any information and experience that you can share with me.

Some specific questions I have in mind:

     > Is there a supplied module functionally equivalent (or close to)
       the Logitech FileSystem module?

     > Is there any difficulty substituting you own Terminal and InOut, etc,
       modules for those supplied?

     > Are CoRoutines supported?

     > Can the program gain control, at least in order to do some cleanup
       and error message output, upon an exception such as HALT, index
       out of range, etc. 

     > Are string literals nulldelimited by the compiler? Does TopSpeed
       do this?

     > Is object code Mic****ft format? Libraries supported? other tools?

     > Is anything missing that I tend to take for granted as an expected
       part of a M2 implementation, eg, definition version enforcement, 
       run time index and overflow checking, unlimited name sizes, etc?

Thanks.

                    Tom Breeden
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