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From: lah@raybed2.ray.com (LANCE HOLMES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.emacs
Subject: Amiga Manx 5.0 vs MicroEmacs 3.10
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Date: 7 Mar 90 13:48:59 GMT
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I just got my update to Aztec manx C and thought I would try it out.
I always find it interesting to recompile a program when I get the source
to see if first I can in fact recompile it and also to see if I get a 
different size file for the executable.  So I tried to recompile
MicroEmacs 3.10.

Well first of all, as any of you who have received their update know, Aztec
has changed the options used with the compiler.  So I modified the makefile
and went on.  The second problem the compiler had with the code was the
use of some constants that were being returned.  So not to spend a lot of
time on this problem I changed them to variables and assumed that the 
program would treat them as constants anyway.  The next problem the compiler 
had was with a statement in the  module input.c .  It said that the statement
was to complex and that I should simplify it and recompile.  Well
I'm not and expert but I have a good understanding of C and couldn't
see where the statement was all that complicated.

I gave up after that error and feel that I going to hold on to version
3.6 of the Manx C compiler and docs for a while seeing how there does
seem to be a variety of differences.

Lance Holmes