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Pelles C => General discussions => Topic started by: Akko on November 07, 2016, 09:06:29 AM
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I know "it's ready when it's ready and one must be thankful which I am"
Nevertheless since 1 1/2 years nothing new, no bugfixes (are there any when you pay for it?)
Is PC still maintained?
BR Akko
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Good question...
Last Active: March 24, 2015
But check e.g. Timo's contributions, or Frankie's SDK for PellesC (http://forum.pellesc.de/index.php?topic=7017.0) - the community is strong :)
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Yes I appreciate Frankie's and others' great contributions.
But quite a number of bugs are deeply rooted within the compiler/toolchain. I had been bitten myself (long ago) which did cost me some gray hairs...
So I have become reluctant to rely on PellesC as long as it seems to be snapshot publications without visible backing.
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jj2007 said the community is strong. Really???
Any news about maintenance of Pelles C???
I fear it is going down the Turbo Pascal road...
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I was just wondering the same thing. It has been over 2-1/2 years now. Has development on Pelle's C been abandoned?
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Without active peoples this site may silence too :(
@Akko, could you do a list bugs that you know?
Inlining = None doesn't work?
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Isn't the bug reports section in this forum big enough?
A couple of years ago I sent some bug reports under another member name.
Since nothing happened I am using PellesC only now and then for its IDE and for prototyping.
Now and then I compile and test with gcc and MSVC to get better error reporting.
Near production I leave PellesC completely.
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For someone one list is faster to check than that long bug section.
If someone have such a bug list already, it would be nice to see it.
BTW: ScrFileCcl Add-In is for checking compiling with cl.
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I don't know really, but I am feeling that Pelle has other priorities right now. I wish him luck and health and a long happy life.
In the past he must have invested a considerable amount - perhaps too much - of his given lifetime in all those assemblers, compilers and tools. The "community" - whatever virtual entity this is - must be very very thankful to him for sharing the fruits of his work. From my own experience it probably must have been perhaps not only working days "from 8 to 5" but long nights and weeks full of mental struggling.
But enough of that "romanticism". I read that PellesC is an improved lcc. Obviously to prevent PellecC to go down the sink, and to make it open source, license matters must be clarified with Fraser/Hanson, and perhaps with other Pelles' contracting companies.
I am just hitting the bush here, of course, but I would deeply regret it, if in 10 years from now this wonderful C compiler, IDE and assembler would only be nostalgia.