Megamax C compiler (and linker)

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Subject: Megamax C compiler (and linker)
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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 12:04:55 EST
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From: Scott Comer

I am less than pleased.

1) Toolbox routines don't follow Apple case conventions. Porting software
from Sumacc is therefore not a "snap", because some poor soul must change
all the toolbox calls. Bletch.

2) The C compiler doesn't use the nice file opening interface (like
MacWrite, or even their editor). "C-boot:edit.c" Yum, Yum. Moreover, if
you get the file wrong (or right, after it does its bit) the compiler
exits.

3) Same for the linker. Also, it bombed out inexplicably while loading
external symbols and ran perfectly the second time. Yow! Are we having
fun yet?

All in all, this is a good idea, if only someone had done it right (maybe
used the standard user interface guidelines).

Just to let people know that there are problems, too. We've heard too
much good news about this compiler to believe it could be true, and it
isn't.


Scott Comer and David Chase of Rice University, checking this product out