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Subject: Laser C versions
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Date: 6 Apr 89 19:05:04 GMT
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From: omni!emh@stag.UUCP (Eric Hopper)

	Laser C 2.0 is an upgrade from Laser C 1.0. The main things
they add are some minor bug fixes, a print feature, and support for
their source-level debugger LaserDB.

	Laser C 1.0 was an upgrade from Megamax C. It is an integrated
enviroment mildly reminiscent of Turbo C, but a lot better.

	It has a dynamic RAM cache that automatically flushes cache
buffers if the currently running program asks for more memory.

	The enviroment also includes a stdio window that only works for
program output. The stdio window also doubles as a command line
interpreter.

	The library format has been altered from the megamax format. It
now uses standard DRI library format, with an extra added file at the
beginning so it can easily tell what .o files contain particular global
sysmbols.

	If you use Dlibs, be careful. The initargs routine from Dlibs
doesn't work because it tries to grab the program name by looking into
the parents stack for the last Pexec call. Laser C does NOT appreciate
this at all, and will immeadiately give you an exception two. Oh, yes.
The Laser C shell traps exceptions.

	It has many more features, and it would require to much room to
explain them all, but I like the compiler.

Have fun,

Eric Hopper (Omnifarious) Don't try to send to emh@omni.uucp, because omni
is completely unkown to any system except stag.
omni!emh@stag.UUCP  or  ....{rosevax, ems, umn-cs}!pwcs!stag!omni!emh
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