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- From: vidarh@norconnect.no (Vidar Hokstad)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: More on E
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 22:31:07 GMT
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- Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- : And if you're reading someone's C code, whoever you are and hoever much
- : experience in C you've had, you're bound to get confused between
- : differences (such as expression parsing) between C and E. Some of these
- : may be subtle enough not to be noticed immediately resulting in obscure
- : and dificult to track down bugs.
-
- I've never had any problem translating C programs into E, even if my
- knowledge of C is rather mediocre... The other way around, however, can
- be a nightmare. For instance, how do you declare an array of pointers to
- a function in C? Don't tell me it's intuitive. In E on the other hand,
- it's just another array.
-
- : Well, I'm not on the E mail list, I've read the sections in E.guide, but
- : some other things would be nice to know. When will E give in-line 680x0
- : assembler? When will it do better 680x0/6888x compilation?
-
- ?!? E has had in-line 680x0 assembler at least since 2.1b (I don't know
- about earlier versions, since I've never seen them). That was what made me
- stop using assembler and Pascal... Even though I *hated* the lack of
- precedence and the case-sensitivity in the beginning :)
-
- : When can I compile a module with DEBUG info without having NOP's all over
- : the place? (reason - I tend to compile once with debug and then SLINK
- : from xxx.debug to xxx STRIPDEBUG to remove the debug data rather than
- : compiling twice with and without debug. Obviously, I do have to compile
- : twice now with E)
-
- Why is it a problem compiling twice? It's not like E takes a long time to
- compile... Personally I don't usually use debuggers, so it's seldom a
- problem :)
-
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