CompuServe Messages

Ben, Sorry, but Lattice is not yet a solid product. I've been bit by a number of different compiler bugs during the development of my current project. I've lost a LOT of time to tracking them down. Granted, some of these bugs were in Beta patches (that I needed to fix other bugs), and the compiler _is_ getting there, but it's not quite there yet. I even got to the point where I went out and _bought_ Manx (bucking the tides, as usual 🙂 and converted my > 1 meg of source code to Manx, just because I couldn't lose any more time to chasing bugs that weren't my own (and compiler bugs are a royal pain to track down to a reproducable sequence of managably-sized code from 1+ meg). Converting to Manx cost me about 2 days of work (primarily because "Lattice-style" coding _is_ generally more portable), but I have not yet tracked down a single bug that I can blame on a compiler bug (as opposed to a compiler ideosyncracy) with Manx. In general, I agree that Lattice is a much better product at the design level. Hopefully, the next release patch-version will make it a stable and dependable product. I haven't had time to really look at the later beta patches, so I can't say for sure (although the last level I had tried was getting there). Only wish that Lattice's compile/link speeds and debugger-info-handling were on a level with Manx – Manx is a definite win in those areas. As usual, Ben, things aren't quite as black-and-white as you portray them. But you knew that, didn't you? <grin> …BobR