Sorry for the delay, I'm on the digest these days...
A public patch for the Release 5 tools was made available on our web site
last week. I encourage you to download and apply it to your tools. There
are many fixes, the most important of which was the crasher in the post
linker and the sporadic appearance of odd parts of the IDE in your programs'
bitmaps.
Regarding performance, there was a quote on Gamasutra last week where Gabe
Dalbec of DragonBane fame said CodeWarrior code generation was 40% larger
than gcc. We looked at Gabe's settings and it turned out that he had an
option turned on that was bloating his code. After turning the feature off,
our code generation and gcc's are pretty much the same.
For those of you who use CodeWarrior, see if you have the "Auto-inline"
check box turned on in the C/C++ Settings panel. This is a great feature,
but in certain circumstances it can bloat your code. Since Palm apps are
sensitive to code bloat, you should turn it off globally and apply it
manually with pragmas where you want it.
-E
> Date: 6 Apr 1999 21:02:52 -0700
> From: Ray Rodrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: gcc vs anything else
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know as well - I am happy with GCC (W95) but see many
> complaints and problems posted about CodeWarrior.
>
> I have a copy of V4 and have just received my V5 free update, but since
> there seems to be many outstanding issues, many of which it seems are
> not going to be fixed until V6, I have not bothered to use it. I feel
> reluctant to part with more money to get fixes when I am happy with GCC.
>
> Anyone like to comment ?
>
> Regards,
> Ray
>
> george williams wrote:
>
> > Perhaps a question for hardcore developers:
> >
> > I've been using gcc with a minimal emacs dev
> > environment and it works fine. Are there
> > any great reasons to move to a prettier dev
> > solution like MetroWorks?
> >
> > gw.
>
