CompuServe Messages

Your point is well taken. Since I've never seen the docs for the Amiga C compilers, Manx and Lattice, I can't make much of a comment about how those folks handled their manuals. From some comments I've heard around here those manuals generally stuck to discussing their respective compilers. TDI should have done a much better job documenting their compiler, and the SYSTEM module, rather than just providing hardcopy of the .def files. The books that will show you the light when it comes to programming the Amiga all use C , of course. I've managed to learn a lot about C just trying to make it through the examples. I even keep a C tutorial at my desk here all the time. As to why TDI uses ADDRESSes sometimes and POINTERs other times really depends on what your passing. They could use ADDRESS all of the time (just like they could use WORD or LONGWORD for parameter passing) but that would undermine the languges strict type checking.