Mac Compiler (MPW or CW?)

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Mon Dec 11 22:25:11 UTC 2000



John M McIntosh wrote:
> 
> As as you all know Squeak is currently compiled using Code Warrior
> 5.2 ($$$). However Jitter 3, uses a GNU based version of C/C++ for
> MPW (Free). This build also supports a non-jitter VM.
> 
> Therefore given a interesting compiler optimzation bug which Bob
> Arning found on friday, IE
> 
> GSMCodec new compressSound: (SampledSound soundNamed: 'clink')
> 
> Crashes the 2.8/9.x mac VM only when the optimized level 3 is used,
> and of course the pending Jitter platform, perhaps it's time to
> evaluate building official VM using the MPW environment and forgoing
> our dependency on MetroWerks CodeWarrior
> 
> So Comments?
Free sounds good to me:-) 
Do you have more info on Apples future development environments?

Karl
> 
> PS I'd like to post 2.9.7 MPW based mac VM later this week if the
> screams aren't too loud?
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