Suggestions

[Tom Hughes]

In message <502H1IAfpWB5EwR1 at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, at 23:24:29, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote on
> the subject "Suggestions":
>
> >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.
>
> 1. Is it maintained as a RISC OS compiler? I believe not.

Not generally although Acorn did make some fixes which were released
to developers after the last public release.

> 2. It is an excellent compiler, albeit a bit long in the tooth, but that
> doesn't matter. I believe that Norcroft *is* falling into disuse on this
> platform (because the average person can't buy it?) as people migrate
> onto gcc and c++. I could be wrong, and probably am ;-)

I would have thought that people would need a reason to move - unless
there is a pressing need for C99 features why would anybody move? An
unmaintained compiler is only an issue if there are major bugs that
need fixing and in my experience Norcroft has very few.

Tom

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