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I've been doing quite a lot of CodeWarrior development lately (on my PC,
because the Mac is too slow and not on my desk). And in the process I've
found quite a few bugs/errors/etc (confirmed by MetroWerks). Here's
the short list:

1. Missing library functions

unsigned char x;
stream >> x;

This won't link; >> operator is missing for unsigned char.

2. Compiler/template library problems where you have to use
__MSL_FIX_ITERATORS__ to work around compiler bugs. Otherwise
some STL classes, like priority_queue in <queue.h>, won't compile.

3. Weird character problems; for example, something like

unsigned char a[4];
int i, j;
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
    stream.get(a[i]);  // should be stream >> a[i] but see above!
}
j = (a[0] << 24) | (a[1] << 16) | (a[2] << 8) | a[3];

does not seem to work properly (j ends up with 0 instead of the correct
value). MetroWerks suggestion was to change it to a char array and turn on
"Use unsigned chars" in the options instead. This seems to fix this particular
problem, but still my code does not run properly -- but the exact same
source runs fine on GNU g++ and Solaris CC.

4. Right now, my program gets a lot further in the debugger than it
does in a non-debug build. The latter seems to hang in one place and chew
a LOT of CPU time.

I find all this to be incredible because as I understand it, CW Pro 3 is
something like the 14th version of the compiler? Even if it's only version
3, how can it contain missing library functions and buggy ones too?

I'm at a loss as to what do. I have Visual C++ 5.0 here waiting to be installed
anyway (to help with the GUI design on Windows) but need to get this thing
running on the Mac eventually anyway. Can someone convince me to "hang in 
there" with CW, or suggest another compiler?


thanks,
Hamish
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