🚀 go-pugleaf

    I've revised my thinking as to the distribution / shareware
    registration / commercial version stuff.  For the near future
    registered ($40) shareware users will get DICE with as much as has been
    implemented so far.  The network distributions will be missing certain
    features such as floating point and bit fields and maybe some keywords
    such as __chip.

    Currently I expect to get a reasonable registered ($40) release together
    in a month that is sufficiently advanced from the unregistered version.
    I will be holding requests for the registered ($40) version until I
    get the appropriate licence from commodore to allow me to send a fully
    self contained distribution.

    Also, thanks to all of you who have sent in bug reports!  Several small
    bugs have been found in the c.lib and in the main compiler pass (so far
    nothing not caught with an error message), and one problem with dlink
    (linking in objects containing CHIP memory data segments).  A few
    problems have been found in the preprocessor associated with macro
    recursion... has to do with dcpp doing macro replacement of symbols at
    the wrong time which showed up compiling some GNU code.  Also the
    string construction:

	"abcd\
	efgh"

    does not work properly ... the newline is kept in the string when it
    is not supposed to be.

    I would be interested in any comparisons of the size and speed of your
    own code compiled under DICE verses compiled under other commercial
    compilers (please send private email).  I'm not really interesting in
    benchmarks since I can do those myself (and they are generally
    meaningless anyway for same-machine comparisons).

						-Matt

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    Matthew Dillon	    uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
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