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i am looking for information from people who have experience with either or
both of these two c compilers, megamax and mark williams, for the atari st
line.  some people may consider this a dead issue - if so, i would be 
interested in hearing *why* a particular decision was made for one product
or the other.

some of the pros and cons i have been hearing:  MM has problems with i/o 
redirection, limits on code/data segment size, no linkage with external
assembly modules;  but fastest compilation and excellent performance of 
generated binaries.  MWC is big, multipass, slower, but good for porting
Unix applications, has separate assembler, comes with symbolic debugger and
other Unix-like tools.  supposedly MWC does not run in the beckemeyer c shell
environment - is this true?  and is the MWC debugger any good?  as for MM, 
does release 1.1 include any significant new capabilities?  does MM have
any plans to provide or support a symbolic debugger?

if you have specific experience with either of these compilers and wish to
either praise or bury them, or if you can compare/contrast the two of them, 
i'd really like to hear from you.  i will happily summarize responses for
the further edification of the net as a whole if there is interest, otherwise
i can mail summaries to individuals, after the 1st of the year.

tom love
xerox egp/cad
leesburg, va
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