#Lattice vs. Manx
27-Apr-90 12:58:22
Sb: #100323-#Lattice vs. Manx
Fm: Mike Spille/Manx 71545,1466
To: Mike Roth/Lattice 76566,1137
Didn't mean to start any rwars – sorry if I gave that impression. However,
lots of people seem to believe that 'prototyping=ANSI', which is
ridiculously far from the truth. There are little matters like
auto-aggregate initialization, string concatenation, library functions, et
al which are also required to be even close to ANSI. Without a doubt 5.0x
of the Lattice compiler comes pretty close to ANSI (not as close as Manx,
but most people won't notice the difference), but Lattice 4.0 doesn't cut
it as ANSI just because of prototyping. As for the debugger vs. ANSI
compatibility, I'd take a debugger any day.