My apologies for the furious mail. It is one of those days.... "Heather Tufts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Does this mean your patches are mutually exclusive? and work > > only on certain platforms and fail on others? > > To answer your question - I am using NT 4 SP 6 on PII/128. > > This is not the intent, though we are aware that fixes to one bug have > created new bugs in other parts of the software. > > > The issue is not about whether your software has bugs or not. > > Why can't you just have two versions of the software - "Most > > stable version" > > (say 5.1.2...) and the "Latest version" (6.0.3) etc... > > Since our software comes on CD, it is difficult to make several versions of > a piece of software available. Would you have our sales people ask each > customer which they would like to have shipped to them? This is different > from the Emulator (but only slightly) since it is not downloadable over the > web. > > > reliably every time to a PRC and will never destroy my source. > > (before someone suggests gcc... don't, I already use it & I am happy > > with it) > > I am not denying that our software has bugs. I know it does. I maintain > the buglist. However, I am simply asserting that it is very difficult for > me to track down issues and get them logged and fixed with only vague > > references such as this. Do you have a project where you can show me how > the CodeWarrior complier destroys your source? If our compiler is > corrupting executables, we absolutely want to get that fixed ASAP. However, > be aware that code that compiles under GCC is not guaranteed to compile > under our compiler. Partly, this is because ours is ANSI-compliant, and GCC > has some added features that, if used and then compiled with a compiler that > doesn't support those added features, may not compile cleanly, or at all. > > > You guys were not able to make even the compiler stable > > (forget the IDE which may be a really complicated piece of > > software). How could we trust anything generate by the compiler > > which swaps numerator with denominator in a division!!, corrupts > > a bitmap while it is being linked in, and a linker which generates > > a GPF once in a while. > > This is the kind of statement that I have difficulty resolving. You say our > compiler is not stable, but when you come across issues, you haven't > reported them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that they > can be logged and fixed. The numerator/denominator swapping issue was with > R5, and a patch was released to fix that as soon as we were made aware of it > and got it fixed (check http://www.metrowerks.com/download/ and search for > patches released with CW for Palm R5 for that patch). Are you using release > 5 on Win2k? That might be part of the problem. The 3.5 SDK, Update 1, and > the debugger plugins will not work with R5. I'm not aware of bitmaps being > corrupted while being linked in. Which version of the linker/post-linker > are you using? Could you send me a reproducible case so it can get fixed? > I would also like to see a reproducible case of the general protection fault > you mention. > > Our software is not perfect. I and everyone else at Metrowerks recognize > that, and we apologize for any issues you have had with our software. Just > realize that we want to make our product the best it can be. We need your > feedback and bug reports in order to make that happen. I simply can't use > the tools as extensively as any of you do to be able to find every bug that > exists in this environment. > > So, send your reports in. Send reproducible cases. The more issues I can > get logged, the more that can get fixed. > > -hkmlt > >
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