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From: jmunkki@santra.HUT.FI (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LightspeedC 3.0 Review (long)
Message-ID: <14534@santra.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 88 07:35:40 GMT
References: <7215@cup.portal.com>
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Reply-To: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In article <7215@cup.portal.com> jwhitnell@cup.portal.com writes:
>The other feature that didn't change was the inline assembler.  A major lack
>for 3.0 is the lack of support for 68020, 68881 and 68851 assembly...

				WHY??????

It would have been so easy to add and I was planning on writing a lot of
68881 code as soon as I got the compiler. Now I have to trust your FP routines
and forget hand-optimization of some stuff. I can probably forget my plans to
write any decent 3d-stuff. I don't care that much about the 020-stuff or the
851 instructions (would have been nice though), but the is really a major lack
in the assembler. Even the Mach assembler knows 020 and 881 instructions.

I hope there will be a 3.01 version real soon. (Well, I'll probably get the
$check for the upgrade today anyway...)

I like C, but nothing beats 10% asm, 90% C programming.

Juri Munkki
jmunkki@santra.hut.fi
jmunkki@fingate.bitnet