CompuServe Messages

Magazines? Oh well, the question is, can you expect a reviewer to run standard compiler tests? I think this makes a differences between a good and a bad compiler review. But than, it seems to be impossible to find such reviews. But I agree, the bugs in the compiler optimizer are hard to find and I usualy get 3-4 bugs after compiling my Studio software with a new compiler (several MB source code). Very often the bugs don't show up that easily (they don't always result in crashes… often they trash the stack or memory for later suprises ;-). The early 6 and 6.5/6.51 versions do have serious problems. But as said, I didn't had a bug yet with 6.55 but more testing has to be done with the GO. (PS: one example – the small PNG gfx format library source here on CIS doesn't compile right with the 6.51 GO but works fine with 6.55).