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From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Amiga compiler recommendations
Message-ID: <22712@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 20:22:37 GMT
References: <14285@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Jun26.050537.23412@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Jun26.155319.14394@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun26.155319.14394@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
>In article <1991Jun26.050537.23412@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) writes:
>>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.

I disagree, actually.

>>It complains about lots of things a K&R compiler wouldn't, but you
>>can selectivly turn off warnings.
>
>	I happen to like K & R 'C', but the newer compilers and updates to
>them insist on you adhering to ANSI. I have MANX 'C'. It supposedly has a
>flag (-k) to make it behave like a good ol K & R, but it doesn't. I know that
>the MANX is around revision 5.0d now, I still have 5.0. I gave up on it
>earlier and reverted back to my trusty ol 3.4/3.6, but the problem is that
>the library doesn't know anything about the newer calls! Maybe MANX has
>fixed this by now, but I'm tired of being strapped to the compiler mana-
>facture for updates. I imagine I could make my own stubs, but I'm unsure if
>there is more to it than simply saving registers, translating stack based
>args to registers, and cleaning up. While i'm at it, is there a compiler 
>that links with amiga.lib or somehow is able to figure out the correct
>_LVO offsets? 
>
>thanks - jeff

The latest Manx 5.0d package comes with 2.0 support (libs, includes, etc.)
and works just fine. I use it all the time for a relatively wide variety
of chores.

Brian

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