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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Amiga compiler recommendations
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Date: 27 Jun 91 08:25:01 GMT
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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.
>
>It complains about lots of things a K&R compiler wouldn't, but you
>can selectivly turn off warnings.


Not quite true, that is about it being the one and only, since you can have
full K&R compliance with a K&R pre-processor with Aztec 5.x.  the only problem
comes with the library functions, i believe that SAS has some Unix library
functions that Manx doesn't have, and vice-versa.

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