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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Free C Compiler?  Almost!
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Date: 15 Mar 88 20:24:07 GMT
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In article <1692@van-bc.UUCP> jlydiatt@jlami.van-bc.UUCP (Jeff Lydiatt) writes:
->I am pleasantly suprised at the interest shown in a free C compiler
->for the Amiga.  There is a real good one on the way RSN :-) - read on - 
->	o no long multiply, divide and mod functions. Int's are 32 bit
->	  longs, but these operations are done with the native instructions
->	  and a warning is printed.
->	o no floating point support.

May I suggest you consider inline calls to the mathieeedoubas.library? It
has been enhanced in 1.3 to be nearly as fast as FFP and takes advantage
of an '881 or '882 if present automatically. That might also allow you
to do 32 bit integer arithmetic.

--Chuck McManis
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