Suggestions

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Mon Apr 24 23:24:29 BST 2000


In message <aVJfNPAlLXA5EwOi at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Secondly, I'm also a bit uncomfortable about the use of the
> (undocumented) macro __swi, which is only applicable to a single
> compiler, itself no longer maintained, and probably no longer the
> mainstream compiler for the platform. How much real benefit does it
> bestow on the library code?

Well Norcroft is very much maintained, you just don't get new versions
unless you pay ARM a lot of money ;-) I'd say it's still used by the
majority of Acorn developers as it is still an excellent C89 compiler.

Tom

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