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Re: Compiler Info Wanted

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From: Bruce Heimbigner
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1988 22:12
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I've been using Ltech compiler for about 9 months it will produce ROMable code
tho I have no experience with this.  I would definitely recommend an AT level
machine for Ltech.  It is true that ver. 3.x is a faster compiler but linking
takes longer than it did with 2.x, I understand that this change was necessary
to allow M-2 '.obj' modules to be linked to other languages' '.obj' files.

The run time debugger (mouse recomended) is effective, the post mortem
debugger works the same as the run time but
often there is no memory dump for
the post mortem to work on (you have to specifically turn this function on
but still it often doesn't generate the dump).

To put it simply the manual stinks it barely passes as a reference to their
implementation of M-2.  There is however several good books for M-2.  Tho the
manual is bad the phone in support is good and I have always received good
telephone assistance, I just wish Logitech would automatically
send out their recommendations to registered users.

Does anyone at Logitech read this??  If so a couple of suggestions.  The
current owners manual should be professionally re-written, if you have access
to an HP-9816 (200 or 300 series computer) basic language reference you will
have what I would descibe as the best written technical manual to a language or
an operating system.  It makes the MS-DOS or turbo-pascal manuals look like
junior high efforts.  Tho a lot of us have been using M-2 as a professional
development language, many are coming to Logitech's M-2 as a first exposure
to the language and it is too bad that the manuals they'll receive are of
little help.  (They often read like they'ld been translated from another
language.  Were they?)

bye
 Bruce Heimbigner
Email:                    Snail mail:
 HEIMBIG@WSUVM1.bitnet      N.W. 324 True Street
OR                          Pullman WA 99163-3347 (USA)
 BIX:bheimbigner  (but I don't get on here very often)
----"It's all very well in practice,
        but in theory it just doesn't work."
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From: HEIMBIG@WSUVM1.BITNET (Bruce Heimbigner)
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Subject: Re: Compiler Info Wanted
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