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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 32 bit C Comps and Long
Message-ID: <1989Oct22.163723.2872@world.std.com>
Date: 22 Oct 89 16:37:23 GMT
References: <1224@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <1224@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) writes:
|Someone asked about a C compiler that supported 32bit ints of 386
|machine.  They answer as I see it is yes, they all do.

I rather expect they meant "using the 386-specific 32-bit
instructions."  Very few non-UNIX compilers do this; certainly Turbo C
and MSC do not.  I've run across at least one MS-DOS compiler that
would generate 386-specific code, but I've forgotten which.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com