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From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Amiga compiler recommendations
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Date: 26 Jun 91 05:05:37 GMT
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kemnitz@eden.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Kemnitz) writes:

>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.  

SAS/C is the one and only to satisfy (most of) the above.
It doesn't have awk, sed, lex/yacc, but these are available frlom amiga FTP
sites. It have a make (lmk) that isn't quite compatible with
unix make, but its not bad.

It complains about lots of things a K&R compiler wouldn't, but you
can selectivly turn off warnings.