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#Lattice & Aztec code dif

    07-Dec-90 19:26:43
Fm: Bob Rakosky 75156,336
To: John Toebes 72230,303
John, I agree totally with the reasoning for putting that switch in, as I used to swear frequently at "you guys" when the Lattice compiler first included function prototypes and I had to learn to put in all those casts. Problem (for me) is that I've gotten used to doing the casting and have maintained the habit. I never meant to imply that the compiler shouldn't have that command-line switch. I'm just being resistant to change. <Grin> As to the CLI vs. WorkBench thing, for me it's mostly the same resistance to change. However, I still see at least one shortcoming to the WB approach -at least in relation to the manner in which I'm accustomed to setting up my projects. I use a lot of pseudo-targets in my makefile, and also tend to use a lot of macros in my makefile. Consequently, I am constantly running LMK and specifying specific targets to be "made", and frequently invoking LMK with macro-value overrides. I don't think there's a way yet to adapt this easily to the iconic approach. I probably could set up a bunch of ICONX scripts to do this, but it seems like more bother than it's worth. Also doesn't give me quite as much flexibility as I'd need to anticipate every possible combination I may want. Still, I have no real complaints with the direction you are taking the compiler product. I'm a believer. 🙂 …BobR