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- From: dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas)
- Subject: Re: Advice to SAS/C 5.10b users
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:09:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.194259.26097@tom.rz.uni-passau.de> agsteine@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Karlheinz Agsteiner) writes:
- >This is not true at all. There may be small bugs in the new user interface,
- >but the compiler itself is _much_ more reliable than 5.10b. Take the optim...
-
- Yes, please do ;)
-
- >GO 5.1 had lots of bad bugs, which made it totally unusable for me (most of my
-
- The only problems I had with 5.1 were with the case: statements. Unbelievably
- -bad- problems, but at least I knew where the problems were....
-
- >this to EMITS - it's a bug in the tail recursion code)).
-
- Yep, I found this one too, along with a CXERR (Ty was nice enough to track
- this one down and report it while my harddrive was dead) and a bizarre
- problem with the optimizer AND the utillib option (it doesn't compile my
- function properly, but I'll be darned if I know why -- occurs within
- a LockIBase too, fun eh? NOT).
-
- Apparently some of my modules have long-int math problems that go away
- without the utillib/optimizer combination, and utillib far_data is just
- completely hosed. I haven't even -tested- this bug myself yet, though :(
-
- Yes, I would say there were quite a few problems. But I -don't- get enforcer
- hits from the compiler/optimizer. The darned thing -still- biffs the
- FindTask(NULL)->ln_Name field, but it doesn't get enforcer hits. And that's
- a big plus for me....
-
- >it's Your own fault. I can only recommend upgrading to 6.1 to every version 5
-
- I would too. Just don't use utillib, M68881, or the optimizer for the next
- few months. That's okay, the base code creation is quite adequate.
- Very competitive with SAS/C 5.x, although I have yet to figure out how to
- make VERY SMALL (yet WB supported) programs. These seem about 200-400
- bytes bigger than their 5.x equivalents.
-
- >e-mail: agsteine@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de
-
-
- David C. Navas dnavas@oracle.com
- Working for, but not speaking on behalf of, Oracle Corp.
-