Re: ORCA/C is a horrible compiler

[toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:

>Hmm. At least now I know that it is -supposed- to issue error messages. Yet
>I get only the twirly cursor. Not even that startup string you mention.

If you don't get that startup string then something about your setup is NOT
RIGHT. The basic output system was changed in all the 2.x languages to make
it more compatible with prefixes 10/11/12 and the console driver. Mike could
have implemented it somewhat better than he did (can you say 1 character
bottleneck just so Prizm doesn't have to do as much work? I knew you could),
but it does work for me and lots of other people, so you are definitely the
exception.

>No, a short program I wrote (contained one code line: a printf()) wouldn't do
>anything unless _INITGNOSTDIO was used, in which case it would work in both
>GNO and ORCA 2.0

Man, do you have a lot of gall blaming C 2.0 for this with evidence like that.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu