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From: schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut)
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Subject: Re: Turbo C or MSC
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Date: 2 Apr 90 00:32:27 GMT
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In article <10378@wpi.wpi.edu> jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes:
| In article <4548@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut) writes:
| >As far as speed of the resultant program is concerned, MSC 6.0 has Watcom on
| >the run.  It's impressive.  However, there is one other plus for MSC.  Since
| >ver 5.0, the compiler has generated re-entrant code (i.e. code that will
| >run in protected mode).
| 
| Is this for real?

Well, Ver 5.0 and up will generate code for both MS-DOS and OS/2, so the
result code must run under protected mode.  I've also been told by people
at Microsoft (including one of the lead developers for Windows) that the
code generated runs under protected mode because it's re-entrant.

| What about returning structures?

I've never used MSC, so I don't know what it does for structures.  However,
I can't immagine that someone with access to the compiler would have too
much difficulty finding out.

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Rick (schaut@garfield.cs.wisc.edu)
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