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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Compilers: Lattice vs. Manx
Keywords: compilers, C, pascal, lattice, manx, aztec
Message-ID: <16410@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 17 May 89 21:02:17 GMT
References: <8467@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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In article <8467@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> mplevine@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Marshall P. Levine) writes:
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[...]
>I am also looking for a good PASCAL (contradiction?) compiler.  Does anyone
>know if there are any bug-free PASCAL compilers on the amiga?
>
>-- Marshall

The closest thing to a good native (generates code for execution under
AmigaDos) PASCAL compiler I've used is MetaComco Pascal. The latest
release almost works correctly :-( . It has problems treating dynamic
strings as arrays of char, a bug in copying 0 chars from a string of
length 0 (run-time termination), and string concatenation is EXTREMELY
slow. I can copy the strings to an array of char, concatenate them
myself & stick the result back in the original string MANY times faster
than MCC Pascal can.

Also I found that passing a set variable which was not declared
globally does not always work correctly.

Good news - they seemed to have fixed the incorrect offset calculations
when working with records.

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