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From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice V5.0: Well worth the money
Summary: seconded...
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Date: 9 Dec 88 09:10:34 GMT
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In article <1898@super.ORG> rminnich@brainiac.super.org (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>Well since people have been asking, i thought i would put in my 
>2 cents on Lattice V5.0. Especially as I have in the past expressed
>my unhappiness with Lattice in no uncertain terms.
>   Anyway, Lattice V5 is a real nice piece of work. The 
>symbolic debugger is terrific, the manuals are good, and at long last
>lattice includes a make program. [.........]

I've had my copy for about a week now, and though I haven't done any
heavy work with it yet, everything I've tried has been great.  I don't
regret that $75 upgrade fee at all.

I spent a couple of hours goofing around with the debugger, and it looks
to have everything I'd ever want.  Can't wait 'til my next big bug...(!)
It is nice too to have 3-RING BINDER MANUALS -- and well written at that.
And the make, finally, though it does have one problem (in a moment..).

As I am using C++ a lot at the moment, the first thing I did was to check
that the C++ system would accept the 5.0 compiler in place of 4.1.  It does.
Compiled all my modules without a whimper, they're all a little shorter
(4%-9%), and the program still runs.

The only disappointment was when I tried the make on C++'s "cc"
compile manager.  It apparently runs straight into the 
Execute()/pr_ConsoleTask bug that's been a recent topic in amiga.tech
-- works fine until the first error is reached, then instant Guru.
(The problem is that C++ sends its error messages out via stderr.)
I can get around it by invoking the compiler phases separately in the
makefile, but it's a shame.  I couldn't get anything similar in a plain C
environment, so it shouldn't worry other people too much, unless they
have some cute use for make.

>   So a heartfelt Thanks to all at Lattice who put this version 
>together.
>ron

... from me too.
					-- Pete --