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From: dlc@lanl.ARPA (Dale Carstensen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Manx's Mac 1.06H.1 C and assembler bugs
Message-ID: <5776@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 26-Jul-86 20:12:22 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 26 20:12:22 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Jul-86 23:49:21 EDT
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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>     I still haven't figured out why the Manx assembler and compiler
>     will not give any success, informational, nor error messages when
>     I use the 3.1.1 system file (181KB) instead of the 71KB system
>     file that came with distribution disks. All that comes to the
>     screen is a new prompt when I use my system file. Their system
>     file doesn't say which revision it is nor how it's been modified
>     to make it work with their software. It took me quite a while to
>     track down the problem of getting no output to the screen to a
>     difference in system files. Anybody else seen this problem?
Does your 3.1.1 system have the Manx console driver installed?  It warns
about that in the manual, and in the update documentation, in several places.
Just because the 1.06H version has the console driver in mixcroot.o doesn't
mean the compiler or assembler were linked with mixcroot.o (I'd bet they
weren't, in fact.)

I just received my update yesterday and haven't tried it, but a new feature
that sounds like it could save a lot of compile time is the +H option to
pre-compile header files.  There is also a symbolic debugger that works on
the same Macintosh as the program under test, or through a serial port on a
terminal.