Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!boa!conn From: conn@boa.gatech.edu (Avery Shealey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Manx 3.6a compiler bug Message-ID: <17220@gatech.edu> Date: 6 Jun 88 00:32:07 GMT References: <173@snll-arpagw.UUCP> Sender: news@gatech.edu Reply-To: conn@boa.UUCP (Avery Shealey) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 25 In article <173@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: >Here is a bug in the Manx 3.6a compiler. It seems that the compiler knows >about the "const" keyword but is not using it. I tried to E-Mail this >to Jim Goodnow but the mail keeps bouncing back to me. I would appreciate >if someone would pass this along to him. Here is the four line sample >followed by the two compilation outputs. By the way, the manual says that >internal error 17 means that that data type is not supported. I can't win >in this situation. > I have talked to Manx and the error is correct. The compiler recognizes the words const, volatile, and (something else I can't remember). These words are reserved as it says in the manual. Manx said they will be supported in 4.x. /avery Avery Shealey School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: conn@boa.gatech.edu CSNet: conn%boa@gatech UUCP: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ihnp4}!gatech!boa!conn Avery Shealey School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: conn@boa.gatech.edu CSNet: conn%boa@gatech