Preprocessor output and GCC...

[Jose]

Hi. I'm having a real hard time making my macros work on other compilers than SASC. They're working on SASC but I can't fix the macro errors as easily on other compilers because they don't have a friendly preprocessor only output like SASC does.   The other compilers I'm testint them on are Borland 5.xx(x86)and VBCC but both CPP32 and VBCC with the -E option cut the output right before the error happends, wich is completely useless to debug macros.

So I was wondering about installing GCC but the only versions I found for classic Amiga are 2.x (Aminet) wich actually don't get all the errors 3.x gets on macros.

2 questions:
1- Is there a more recent version of GCC for Classic AmigaOS ?
2- How does it handle preprocessor output only, does it cut it before an error occurs (wich will make it pointless)?

Thanks (not drinking more beer for now... :-D)

[Karlos]

You could try AmiDevCPP. Not entirely sure what version the GCC backend is though.

I hope you learned your lesson about all this though: Next time use a proper OOP language and leave macros to the low level/conditional compilation stuff they are best at ;-)

[Jose]

Doesn't specify what compiler it uses but I can't seen 3.x anywhere for 68k so ...

I knew it wasn't the best way right from the start, just wanted to get something like this working on C and macros seem to be the only thing that allow me to get close to what I wanted.
Being hard is kinda cool actually, will make it more unique if it gets finished ;-)

[Jose]

This is gonna make me finally install Debian on my 1Ghz Athlon to try out gcc where it belongs too (a nice shell console:))