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In article <5099@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> landay@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James A. Landay) writes:
>Does anyone know anything about Aztec C for the ST.  I am considering
>buying a compiler and it is between Aztec and MWC.  I haven't seen
>any reviews on Aztec.  How good is the Unix portability? (I have a feeling
>my program may never have a market on the Atari the way they are handling
>it.)  How is the debugger compared to MWC CSD.  
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>James A. Landay
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I own the MWC compiler version 3.0 and worked with the Aztec C compiler on
the ST as well as on a Mac II. 

You should definately buy MWC. The CSD debugger is excellent and the compiler
itself good. The Aztec C compiler is bug ridden. Having found some code
genrator bugs while working with Aztec on a MacII I tried to reproduce these
bugs on the ST version. And guess what? Same compiler->> same bugs; even
though I had already reported them to Manx (the company marketing Aztec).

This simple one liner crashes the Aztec C compiler on the ST (address error):

main () {  *(int *)1 = 0; }

Compilers that crash when compiling this I do not trust anymore...


Go for MWC: it well worth the money.



Gert Poletiek

NIKHEF-H, Dutch National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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From september 1st 1988:

Gert Poletiek  Dept. of Math. and Computing Science, University of Amsterdam,
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