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From: stelmack@screamer.csee.usf.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Query for the Net
Keywords: SAS C is not as good as GCC in some senses.
Message-ID: <146@screamer.csee.usf.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 15:18:00 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.154623.2287@clinet.fi> <21683@well.sf.ca.us> <1990Nov16.201320.4842@servalan.uucp>
Organization: University of South Florida, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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In article <1990Nov16.201320.4842@servalan.uucp> ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander) writes:
>__chip is impossible with GNU CC (mybe with atom, though?). However,
>I bought Lattice and now the SAS upgrade. I have yet to find a non-trivial
>program that the optimizer works on, I constantly hit compiler limits and

Please define non-trivial. The global optimizer worked fine on my Spades
program and has yet to have a problem with all the database code I've been
working on.

>bugs, I have had it spit up mysterious internal error messages that are not
>in the manual, I have repeatedly found bugs in the library routines, the
>code generation is only fair, and the library is inadequate for my needs.
>In short, if I called SAS whenever I had a problem with thier compiler or
>library, I'd be broke.

The only time I ever hit a compiler limitation was when I tried to compile the
ray2 program from DBWRender -- nothing else. For Amiga development, I find the
library quite adequate. The only time I have problems with the library is when
going between Amiga and UNIX -- since GCC is a UNIX compiler, this is the
situation where GCC might prove invaluable. But, for Amiga stuff (and basic
UNIX programs), SAS works quite well for me. I would like to see more UNIX
extensions in the SAS library (but notice that they added several this time
around, and I suspect we'll see more with each upgrade).

>
>ben@epmooch.UUCP

Just presenting an opposing viewpoint,

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