Re: Flame on Verdix, Any other good Unix compilers???

[ytlat@kk62.ericsson.se (Lennart AtternaesTT/UO)]

endrizzi@sctc.com (Michael Endrizzi ) writes:


>I have been using VADS Version 5 Unix self-hosting for 7 months now and
>I cannot take it anymore. I am up to my eyeballs in "internal errors"
>,"database inconsistency","segmentation error,core dump","out of memory".
>4 of us used DEC VMS Ada version 1!!! for 1 and half years and I can
>only remember about 4 or 5 errors.  Myself in 7 months has found more
>errors then that in a Version 5 compiler!!! I am at the point of
>bypassing the recompile facilities and building my own Unix scripts
>for recompiling and linking.

>So tell me, am I the only one??? Tell me I'm not going insane, I'm
>almost regretting moving from C to Ada (now that's desperate). Are
>there any other compilers out there who's databases don't go south
>on a sneeze. That implement generics in a fashion so that they compile.
>That has a runtime system without endless loops. That has library 
>management tools that don't core dump and spit out Diana trees.


I have used VADS version 5.5 and 5.7 for three years and I have exactly the
same experience. VADS can't handle nested generic, the library manager is a
disaster with internal errors as a consequence and using floating point
support (MC68881) needs a workaround. I don't know how many hours I have
spent the last three years to find workarounds.

A half a year ago I bought version 6.0g for Sun4 and naive enough I thougt
that the new version would be improved, however, I found a bug that makes it
impossible for us to use it, so we have to wait for the next release. My
opinion is that VADS is not worth to be even compared to the VAX VMS Ada.

Now I have had it and I would appreciate if someone could give me some
information about other compilers for Sun3 and Sun4.

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