Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!earleh From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Aztec C 3.6c bargain. Keywords: No "make!" Message-ID: <10134@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 21 Sep 88 15:50:26 GMT Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 22 I just acquired Aztec C 3.6c from MacWareHouse for $65.00. Seems like a real bargain, especially since it runs under both the Aztec and MPW shells. So far, it looks like code generation is comparable to or better than MPW, the compiler is faster, and the linker is much smarter. The example "term" program supplied with Aztec produced a 7k application when compiled with Aztec C and linked with Aztec's linker, and it produced a 13k application when the MPW stuff was used. The advertised MPW source-level support is pretty close, too, although they do use icky 16-bit ints, and the compiler barfs on MPW C style pascal function prototypes. I must have received one of the first copies shipped, however, since: THERE WAS NO MAKE PROGRAM ON THE DISTRIBUTION DISKS! This isn't so bad, because the compiler and linker can be used with MPW make, but I would like to have the Aztec make. If you work for Manx and read this, you might want to do something about it, because it could be embarassing. Earle R. Horton. 23 Fletcher Circle, Hanover, NH 03755 (603) 643-4109 Sorry, no fancy stuff, since this program limits my .signature to three