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: <373@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 15 Jun 88 12:24:52 GMT
References: <2542@ihuxy.ATT.COM> <1395@megamax.UUCP> <2543@ihuxy.ATT.COM> <1904@alliant.Alliant.COM> <360@piring.cwi.nl> <1961@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) wrote:
> i guess i'll stick with good 'ol alcyon (maybe slow but it works...)

to which I replied

> 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.

to which he replied

> there are a lot of us who still use alcyon, and like it. i will probably
> buy MWC 3.x as well, once i get my personal libc makefile built :^). enjoy
> your compiler but don't mislead everyone else.

I'm not trying to mislead anyone. Quite the contrary in fact. You
claimed that Alcyon worked, and I pointed out the the reason that I
stopped using it was because it *didn't* work. I don't have Alcyon
online anymore, so I can't go and try and recreate the problems it
produced, but I do remember, as an example, that it was completely
unable to cope with an initialised array declaration with nested {}'s
that I had.

But still, I don't want to stop you from using it. I just wanted to
point out that for the programs I was compiling, it was essentially
useless.

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