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From: pfister_rob@mtblue.dec.com (Robert Pfister ASO/4AG-ME DTN 271-6925...waning half moon in 2 days)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: M2Amiga questions..
Message-ID: <8802081755.AA06263@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 8 Feb 88 20:26:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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[bi bi bi bi bi bi bi bi bi  -- Zippy ]

I am writting stuff in high gear with M2Amiga compared to the near
brain death development cycle before with MCC Pascal....Anyhow M2Amiga
has some weird things that I'd consider undocumented features (b*gs?)

I've had the compiler crash on me several quite often (never a guru tho)
for things like line 1111 exceptions, internal divide by zero, and something
along the lines of `couldn't allocate register.'  In some cases, fixing the
previous syntax errors solves the problem (I can handle that), but in the case
of `couldn't allocate register', the guilty party was a compound function call
that had to be broken into variables...

ie:

  Foo(TRUNC(16*red),TRUNC(16*green),TRUNC(16*blue)) 

had to be broken into

  r:=TRUNC(16*red);   b:=TRUNC(16*blue);   g:=TRUNC(16*green); 
  Foo(r,g,b);


It seems with the LONGREAL type, expressions have to be broken up in a similar
fashion to avoid syntax errors.

I'm real happy with the development environment of M2Amiga, but I'm kinda wary
of seeing the `compiler crash' msg.  Is there any hope of updates for M2Amiga
that might fix some of these things? or should I learn to live with it?

Robb
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