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From: ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: C
Summary: a comment
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Date: 3 May 91 20:59:01 GMT
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Organization: The Centre for Informatics, WASEDA Univ.
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Mr Chris Wood has actually e-mailed to me saying Lattice C has a good
source level debugger(woocm@sx.ac.uk). It seems everyone is satisfied 
with their C compilers except Alcyon. And to be complete one must not
forget MINIX-ST 's C compiler(pretty awful). Someone has just written
here that he couldn't compile his code because of lack of 030 and
discontinued a support for ATARI. Very sad news. (I thought Turbo C
supported everything).
Though its source level debugger for ST is far from perfect, GNU C is 
by far the
best compiler for us (the price you pay for it is the cost of adding your
memory up to 4MB). And if you happned to have access to a more powerful
machine (preferably 680x0 machines like SUN3), support for TT030 and
source level debugging are no problems. If not, and if one likes to have
expert aid, one cannot tell which is the best. But it is very nice that
there are some at all.
I don't care for speed because nothing is more of a wast of time than
having a buggy compiler. And assembly language level debugging is surely
most reliable if not very efficient.