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From: grunau_b@husc4.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Compiler Question
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Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 19:58:45 EST
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Reply-To: grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (Justin J. M. Grunau)
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I have two simple compiler questions:

	(a) does anybody have any idea how many different object file formats
	    there are for the ST?  I know there's DRI (Alcyon), and that
	    Lattice is compatible with it;  what else is there and what
	    compilers are capable of producing formats compatible with what?

	(b) about ANSI compatability -- are there any compilers out there that
	    are fully ANSI-standard, or at least as much as Lattice or
	    Microsoft C are for the IBM?  Which compiler(s) have the most
	    ANSI extensions?  In particular, is Lattice fully extended (e.g.
	    passable structures/arrays, fully-specified function declarations
	    [with a typelist for the parameters], enum and void types, and
	    concatenatable strings)?

I also wonder, for anybody who cares to answer, whether there is anything about
Lattice C that dis-recommends it other than the fact that it produces rather
large code (closely related to its use of 32-bit values for all expressions, I
assume).  That is, is Lattice also buggy, or not as robust in its runtime
library, etc.

			thanks,

									JJMG
grunau@husc4.UUCP

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