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From: stephen@cia.docs.uu.se (Stephen Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Manx vs. SAS/Lattice
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Date: 18 Apr 91 20:01:28 GMT
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In <22394@yunexus.YorkU.CA> shields@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Paul Shields) writes:

>kuch@reed.edu writes:
>>I'm a Manx owner who recently received the 5.0d upgrade.  In light of the major
>>and crippling bugs in 5.0a and 5.0b, I have some apprehension about getting
>>started with it.  Does anyone out there have any experiences to report?

>Sure, I've been using 5.0d for the past 4 or 5 months on a full-time 
>project, so I've had lots of time with it. 

>It works quite well for me.  Here are the problems I have encountered:

>1) There are a couple annoying problems with sdb, all of which have fairly 
>easy workarounds...

[...lot's of bugs deleted -- don't you wish it were that easy...]

Yet another bug in AztecC 5.0d:  (YABIAC? :-)
Compiling this:
 
void
DrawCurves (void)
{
  SHORT xy[MAXPOINTS * 2];
  struct Border BezierBorder =
  {0, 0, 1, 0, COMPLEMENT, MAXPOINTS, &xy, NULL};
 
  get_polypoints (DrawBezier, Bezier_Window, &BezierBorder);
  return;
}
 
will give internal error #40, while compiling this:
 
void
DrawCurves (void)
{
  SHORT xy[MAXPOINTS * 2];
  struct Border BezierBorder =
  {0, 0, 1, 0, COMPLEMENT, MAXPOINTS, NULL, NULL};
 
  BezierBorder.XY = xy;
  get_polypoints (DrawBezier, Bezier_Window, &BezierBorder);
  return;
}
 
is OK.  What gives?  I mean really -- Internal errors???
For that?!?!
 
Another thing I dislike about Aztec C is sdb's refusal
to read <alt> keys.  I have an A1000 with a keymap I 
edited with KeyMapEd, so that I can have both Swedish
characters and programming characters, like {[]}.  SDB
refuses to let me get at characters by pressing the
<alt> key.  Try printing a matrix without []!
 
/Stephen
stephen@jfk.docs.uu.se
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