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From: chan@eeserv (Andrew Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 32-bit Integer "C" Compiler?
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.003840.27218@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 25 Oct 89 00:38:40 GMT
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In article <1989Oct21.185658.2287@world.std.com> madd@world.UUCP (jim frost) writes:
>Seriously, if an advertisement for a compiler mentions 386 support,
>it'll do them.  If it doesn't it most likely won't because advertisers
>aren't likely to pass up such a feature.  Most of the common compilers
>(eg MSC, Turbo C) don't have this support.
>

Check out WATCOM-C (by U of Waterloo), they came up with a C compiler that is
supposed to be tailored for 386's.  I hear that WATCOM-C is really a very fast
and powerful package.  It is just that they are not well known enough.  An
article in Dr. Dobb's Journal last year had a review on various C compilers.
There is also a software house giving up MSC and use Watcom-C instead (they
produce some kind of database package).