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From: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
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Subject: Re: Lattice C vers 3.04
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Date: Wed, 20-May-87 03:46:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 20 03:46:49 1987
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** Hold the presses **

Lattice C version 3.04 *does* in fact include an ACCSTART library module.  It's
not mentioned in the manual but is mentioned in a README on disk 1 -- and it's
really there.  (Sorry for the confusion.  My initial entry was based totally on
the manual as I don't have an ST at work, so couldn't look at the disks.)

The editor (ED.PRG) has been vastly improved (not hard) and is integrated with
GEM windows, with some functions (load/save, search/replace, block move/copy
) provided thru the menu line.  The command 'style' remains ~ the same, though.
Still spect I'll stick with EMACS.

The K-Resource is vers 1.1.

The manual appears to claim that the libraries (including maths/floating-point)
has been re-written for increased speed.  One salient fact is that they say
they've changed the way the maths/FP calls work, so that you cannot mix object
modules produced by 3.04 with object modules produced by earlier versions, if
the you've used FP or the maths functions.  (I'll try to whip off a quick
comparison between the new and the previous compilers -- i.e. a mini-benchmark.
However I might not manage it before my rapidly approaching holidays, so if
anyone else wants to do that, feel free.)