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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: lattice/MANX bug when compiling large programs
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Date: 5 Oct 88 03:32:05 GMT
References: <12499@oberon.USC.EDU> <6439@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <12521@oberon.USC.EDU> <634@sas.UUCP>
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In article <634@sas.UUCP> walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) writes:
>The REALLY interesting thing is that the original question and the correct
>answer both arrived here at SAS Institute on the same day.  This might
>explain why the Institute and the Software Distillery (whose members use
>the Institute as a news feed) failed to respond.
>
>(It also doesn't help that John Toebes is out of town. . .)

The SAD thing is that even after succesful compilation and linking the 
program, when run, GURUs right away.  And this is a program that uses no
Amiga-specific routines, just stdio.h and ANSI C code.  It compiles and
runs fine on at least 3 UNIX-based systems.  Since there are no debuggers
provided with Lattice (and I cannot use MANX's SDB), the only thing I can
use is MANX's db (gulp!). Would anybody at Lattice/SAS Institute be
interested in getting the source code of this and take a look at it?

I also tried the suggestions about getting it to run with MANX C and
fix the PC-relative bug.  The only thing I can say is that the PC-relative
bug is generated with "large" switch statements.  Unfortunately in my case,
I cannot simply substitute an 'x' with a 'y' and get it to work: I don't
have such cases in my switch statements.  Too bad that MANX has decided to
just work on 4.0 and leave 3.6 users waiting for the new version (when? 1989?)
without fixing the bugs in 3.6.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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