Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.UUCP (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: DICE Message-ID: Date: 4 Jul 90 03:15:32 GMT Lines: 44 I've revised my thinking as to the distribution / shareware registration / commercial version stuff. For the near future registered ($40) shareware users will get DICE with as much as has been implemented so far. The network distributions will be missing certain features such as floating point and bit fields and maybe some keywords such as __chip. Currently I expect to get a reasonable registered ($40) release together in a month that is sufficiently advanced from the unregistered version. I will be holding requests for the registered ($40) version until I get the appropriate licence from commodore to allow me to send a fully self contained distribution. Also, thanks to all of you who have sent in bug reports! Several small bugs have been found in the c.lib and in the main compiler pass (so far nothing not caught with an error message), and one problem with dlink (linking in objects containing CHIP memory data segments). A few problems have been found in the preprocessor associated with macro recursion... has to do with dcpp doing macro replacement of symbols at the wrong time which showed up compiling some GNU code. Also the string construction: "abcd\ efgh" does not work properly ... the newline is kept in the string when it is not supposed to be. I would be interested in any comparisons of the size and speed of your own code compiled under DICE verses compiled under other commercial compilers (please send private email). I'm not really interesting in benchmarks since I can do those myself (and they are generally meaningless anyway for same-machine comparisons). -Matt -- Matthew Dillon uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon 891 Regal Rd. Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA