Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!steven
From: steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: C compilers on the ST
Message-ID: <360@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 9 Jun 88 15:20:59 GMT
References: <2542@ihuxy.ATT.COM> <1395@megamax.UUCP> <2543@ihuxy.ATT.COM> <1904@alliant.Alliant.COM>
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Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <1904@alliant.Alliant.COM> rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
> i guess i'll stick with good 'ol alcyon (maybe slow but it works...)

Ha! After months of fighting the buggy code produced by Alcyon, I
threw the damned thing away and went over to MWC. I only wished I'd
done it earlier, and saved all that trouble.

The major problem with MWC is that there isn't an option to generate
code to check for stack overflow (the suggestion in the manual to do
it yourself is of course ridiculous), and I almost consider this as
buggy code. It's absolutely infuriating to spend 2 days using the
debugger, only to discover that you've overrun the stack. Does version
3 fix this, by the way?

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@cwi.nl