| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
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| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Descriptions of C compilers are beginning to be split between two notes so I
thought I'd add to the confusion by starting a new one...
Two notes that already contain information on DICE and GCC are 4600 and 4697.
I have been gearing up to do C programming and have been looking over the
selections. Three (relatively) PD C compilers that exist are DICE (PD version
and paid version), PDC and GCC.
DICE is Matt Dillon's compiler whose PD version comes without the Amiga
INCLUDES. The $50.00 version does include the includes 8^).
I been trying to test GCC, but it hasn't yet gone the distance without GURUing
the system. I was going to experiment with it some more, but I got sidetracked
by the latest AmigaWorld Technical Journal. Seems it contains an LZH of the
include files (at least most of them). So I tested out DICE again and {8^o}
amazingly enough, it compiled Amiga programs! I tested it compiling SPOOLER.c
which comes with YAPS2-2.LZH. Before the INCLUDES, of course, it ground out
errors by the dozens. Afterwards, it only found one real error...the program
was using a keyword as a variable. HOWEVER, it still doesn't compile programs
that contain array initializations and, true to form, SPOOLER.C does.
I'm going to continue with GCC and see if I can get it to work with the includes.
PDC, I still haven't gotten to install properly. The installation procedure
is wrong and I haven't really made a lot of effort to correct it.
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| 4752.1 | they both mostly work | RGB::ROSE | Mon May 20 1991 00:21 | 33 | |
I haven't done a lot with GCC, but it never GURUed on me. I use the
C= includes and the C= amiga.lib. I tried compiling DIFF from an early
FF disk. This is a port from GNU code. Fred Fish was unable to get it
working with Lattice for MAXLINE > 4000. I compiled it under GCC with
MAXLINE set to 20,000 and it worked fine. I tried compiling a program
that I have been writing that uses Amiga features heavily and it worked
fine. I tried activating the program from workbench and it worked. So
far the biggest bug I have found is that printf of floating point
variables doesn't work.
I tried compiling the DIFF program with DICE and got error messages
on lines that contained only comments. But I am using DICE for most of
the programs I write and it has been working fine. It runs faster and
produces smaller code than GCC - probably because of its use of the
small data model. Another really slick feature, you add a -r to your
DCC command and it makes residentable code (unless you did something
sily). It works. Activation from Workbench works also if you add a
wbmain() entry point.
Right now, I like DICE better than GCC. I am rapidly approaching a
point where I need floating point support. At that point, I will have
to chose between registered DICE and GCC. If GCC has fixed the printf
bug by then and if they finish the port of the debugger, that might be
the way to go. But Dice is nice because it is small enough I can make
the whole thing resident. (The ARES command in ARP is really nice
because it doesn't load programs until you use them. So you can put
resident commands for all the DICE programs in your s/startupII and it
doesn't use memory unless you are doing compiles.) DICE compiles fast
and produces small executables.
It is probably a good idea to get the C= developement kit to use
with GCC.
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| 4752.2 | Not stacked enough. | WAREGL::WILSONTL | Lead Trumpet (Read that...LEED!) | Tue May 21 1991 09:18 | 2 |
I think my GURU appeared because I forgot to set my stack big enough (131,000). GCC worked after I did that. | |||||
| 4752.3 | -> GCC? | CFSCTC::CARR | Guru: a 4-letter word to Amiga owners | Thu May 23 1991 15:31 | 3 |
Where does one find GCC? Is it available on the net?
-Dom
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| 4752.4 | tape::amiga:[amiga.programming]gcc-910123.lzh | WAREGL::WILSONTL | Lead Trumpet (Read that...LEED!) | Thu May 23 1991 18:42 | 0 |