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From: jim@tortuga.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim (James) Ruehlin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Info Needed: Zortech C++ for Macintosh
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.223918.27768@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 91 22:39:18 GMT
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In article <25239@well.sf.ca.us> nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle) writes:
>
>     Here's a summary of the major problems:
>
>	- Compiler crashes on some valid programs, sometimes crashing machine.  
>  	  Most crashes are in the global optimizer.
>	- Incorrect code generated in several cases.
>	- INLINE unimplemented
>	- M68020/030 support unimplemented.
>	- Floating point coprocessor support unimplemented.
>	- MPW shipped with compiler is pre-release MPW 3.2 and incomplete.
>	- Manual is big but says little about the Mac implementation and
>	  is basically a revision of the Zortech PC compiler manuals.

Yeesh.  Why do companies release beta versions?  It looks like this
is nearly unusable.

Thanks for the report.  If you have time, could you check to see if
you can compile code resources using Zortec?  As I understand it, you
can't with the C++ that Apple has put out.

Thanks -
- Jim Ruehlin