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From: dougl@ism780c.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: asm1.1 (shareware assembler on Fish Disk 50)
Message-ID: <5838@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 13:21:21 EST
Article-I.D.: ism780c.5838
Posted: Sat Mar 28 13:21:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Mar-87 17:44:08 EST
References: <6301@watmath.UUCP>
Reply-To: dougl@ism780c.UUCP (Doug Leavitt)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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Keywords: don't use it, buggy beyond belief

In article <6301@watmath.UUCP> grwalter@watmath.UUCP writes:
>Unless I am mistaken, the shareware assembler on Fish Disk 50 is so buggy
>as to be unuseable.

Being the author of this beast I can completely agree with him.  After I
sent it out I got caught up in enough other work, that I didn't find out how
bad it was till it was too late.  I currently have a third release which
I am using as part of various PD C compilation systems I am toying with.
These include both the PD C compiler from the fish disks as well as GNU C.
I have also made this third release available to a few people for further
testing.  When I've very confident there seems to be reasonably bug free,
I'll make a third release (I've already had two strikes, I'm not trying
for three).

If there are people interested in being beta testers, contact me.

People interested in helping bring up the GNU C how about if we coordinate
with me?  I have a prelease of the system, and have done some evaluation,
and I have some ideas on what needed to get done.  Being a compiler writer
by trade, I would REALLY like to have a GOOD C compilation system available.

		Doug Leavitt
		{ sdcrdcf, seismo, ... } !ism780c!dougl