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From: kemnitz@eden.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Kemnitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Amiga compiler recommendations
Summary: sorry if this is an FAQ, but I just started reading this group
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Date: 26 Jun 91 01:28:00 GMT
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Reply-To: kemnitz@eden.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Kemnitz)
Organization: Postgres Research Project, UCB
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I just got my A3000 and I intend to port Postgres to it (200,000 lines of
pretty ancient and often bad C code that does work with K & R compilers on Unix
boxes).  What compilers on the Amiga have the following:

1.  A good debugger 
2.  Efficient code, but no buggy optimizers (if it has one, Postgres will find
    it :-(
3.  Other Unix-style tools such as grep, awk, sed, make, lex/yacc, etc
4.  Decent manuals.  

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