Message-ID: <1651@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-May-83 23:30:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 31 23:30:00 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jun-83 09:08:13 EDT
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Aztec C is good stuff, and I speak as an experienced programmer.
I used their Z80 compiler to write a Business Basic compiler, with heavy
use of static data structures and initializers (for those lex and parse
tables).  They advertise that they implement everything except bit fields.
I've had some trouble with #if, and "solved" it by going exclusively with
#ifdef, but that was several versions ago.

My sole complaint is that their interface to MACRO-80 is not as good as
they advertise.  You pretty much have to invest a weekend in rebuilding
the L80 compatible library because they can't get it right themselves.
Fortunately the source code for all library routines is provided so this
is within the realm of possibility.

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!teklabs!tekecs!andrew)  [UUCP]
                       (andrew.tektronix@rand-relay)   [ARPA]