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From: AlexK@tharr.UUCP (Alex Kiernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT and Lattice C v5.0
Message-ID: <866@tharr.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 90 10:31:27 GMT
References: <26BC2055.28872@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: AlexK@tharr.UUCP (Alex Kiernan)
Organization: Power Microsystems Ltd
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In article <26BC2055.28872@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian) writes:
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>	I had in mind to buy Lattice C v5 but I was a little leary after 
>reading the box.  How closely does it comply to the ANSI standard?  I thik
>the wording on the box says that it conforms 'closely.'  How close is close?

Very close, the compiler misses on trigraphs and wide characters. Also
the representation of float/double is not spot on. The libraries are,
as far as I am aware, fully conformant. The current release is
5.04.01, which these comments relate to. I should mention the product
is my responsibility.

Alex Kiernan, HiSoft.