Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oscvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utcs!oscvax!rico
From: rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: source code for Amiga is not much good?
Message-ID: <404@oscvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Apr-86 10:06:19 EST
Article-I.D.: oscvax.404
Posted: Fri Apr 25 10:06:19 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Apr-86 06:39:37 EST
References: <1759@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> <436@mips.UUCP> <1458@tekgvs.UUCP> <722@hoptoad.uucp> <478@3comvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Organization: Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
Lines: 40
Summary: 

In article <478@3comvax.UUCP> mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>In article <722@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>>In article <1458@tekgvs.UUCP>, keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes:
>>> (Note: of course I'd rather have the source, but with the Amiga and
>>> the various incompatible C compilers, the source may not be of much
>>> use anyway! :-) )
>>
>>Great.  Let's all just do out programming and distribution in binary
>>and ignore this problem in the hope that it will go away.
>>
>
>Anyone know of a 'C' compiler for the Amiga that is not compatible with
>the Amiga 'C' compiler (lattice)?  I own Manx, and it has a few bugs, but
>it is compatible for almost every source posted to this newsgroup so far.
>As a matter of fact, my distribution disk cam with the sources to a lot of
>public domain stuff from the Fred Fish disks - all work fine.  Now either 
>someone spent a lot of time converting these sources to make them compile
>with Manx, or Manx is truly compatible.  I use the +l option on the compiler
>most of the time.

My experience with Manx is much the same as Mike's, I've compiled many
programs which are designed for Lattice 3.03 with no trouble using
Aztec C.  I use the +l option (makes int's 32 bits wide instead of 16)
on just about everything that's posted (I don't use it for things that
I write myself).

The only compatability problem that I've found is that there are
functions in the Lattice library that aren't in the Aztec library and
vice-versa.  Normally this just means I call up a friend of mine and
say "Chris, what does <lattice-function> do?", then I code it.  I think
I had to re-code "stpblk" and "stci_d" (or something like that).  Both
of the were *very* trivial (and I can add them to my c.lib file if I
ever get the urge).  I started out using Lattice when that's all there
was, but now that I've used Manx, I'm not going back.

	-Rico

		...{allegra|ihnp4|watmath|decvax|linus}!utzoo!oscvax!rico

DISCLAIMER:  Leave the Science Centre alone, they didn't mean it.