Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!pogo!rickc
From: rickc@pogo.TEK.COM (Rick Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C compilers
Message-ID: <5425@pogo.TEK.COM>
Date: 19 May 88 00:40:06 GMT
References: <53@xenon.UUCP> <5490@emcard.UUCP>
Reply-To: rickc@pogo.UUCP (Rick Clements)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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In article <5490@emcard.UUCP> mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites) writes:

>Power-c is the only choice for compiling any language that I have tried on
>the 64. Super C is copy protected and thus disables any fast-load type
>cartidges.  I tried their pascal too, and couldn't live with the "custom"
>file system.

Super-C is copy portected.  It does have a built-in fast loader.  The biggest
problem is you cann't move any thing to the RAM disk.

>Power C has a real compiler (no P code), and a REAL linker. They
>even allow you to build libraries of routines. This is a contrast to
>the Abacus products which have all of the system routines in a big hunk.

You can build library routines in Super-C, but it loads the whole thing.
That is one of the reasons I am going to buy Power-C.  The other is there
source format is not standard; this makes it hard to download source code.

BTW, Spinnaker doesn't seam to be pushing Power-C very much.  I had not seen
it in any of the stores here.  So, I ask about ordering it.  They had to look
in four catalogs and call two distributors before the could find out about it.