Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!metaphor!dragon!djh From: djh@dragon.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: DICE Message-ID: <1209@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> Date: 11 Jun 90 23:31:06 GMT References: <9005290344.AA10362@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> <3877@moondance.cs.uq.oz.au> Sender: news@metaphor.Metaphor.COM Reply-To: djh@dragon.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA Lines: 18 Matt, may I strongly suggest that before you officially release a -Commercial- compiler, that you run it through a C Test Verification Suite first. I'm assuming your compiler will be ANSI-compliant? Metaware has test suites available, as does at least one other company; I don't imagine they'll be cheap. Aztec & Lattice have a long enough history that users have flushed out a lot of bugs for them. Save yourself a lot of trouble and consider exercising your compiler on a Test Suite; I know Aztec bought one quite a while ago. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dallas J. Hodgson | "This here's the wattle, | | Metaphor Computer Systems | It's the emblem of our land. | | Mountain View, Ca. | You can put it in a bottle, | | USENET : djh@metaphor.com | You can hold it in your hand." | +============================================================================+ | "The views I express are my own, and not necessarily those of my employer" | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+