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From: chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh C comparisons?
Message-ID: <3517@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 16-Apr-86 15:41:55 EST
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> I've seen various mentions on our own internal network (Easynet) about
> the various C compilers for the Macintosh. Has anyone see a complete
> (up to date) listing, that covers such topics such as:
> 
> 	1) compilation speed NOT USING A HARD DISK
> 	2) linker intelligence
> 	3) adherence to K&R
> 	4) produces 'clickable' applications
> 	5) supports float & double
> 	6) supports TYPEDEF
> 	7) for that matter passing structs by ref?

Well, there are a number of C compilers. Based on comments here and on
CompuServe, the compilers to look at are 'Mac C' by Consulair, Lightspeed
C (a new compiler), Aztec C and Manx. 

I use Mac C (currently 4.0, but I've owned it since 1.0). It works fine
on a pair of floppies (NOT recommended for a single 400K machine, although
I can't think of ANY serious development system that would try that). Speed
is reasonable, and I'm really looking forward to my upgrade so I can use
an 800K floppy. 4.0 and later has a smart linker so you don't link in
routines that aren't used. Object format is MDS, so you can use everything
from Apple without hassle (like macintalk, for instance). It stays very
close to K&R, generates standalone applications, uses float and typedef.
It was one of the first development systems for the mac and still the one
most people try to compare to. It has a full toolbox support package so
you can access all the ROM stuff, and a release is out that handles HFS
(last I saw, this was NOT true of other compilers).

chuq
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