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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: COmpilers for win3
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Date: 5 Nov 90 16:30:27 GMT
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In article <39146@ut-emx.uucp>:
>MS offers an extra disk with the SDK that is supposed to allow you
>to develop Windows programs with alternate compilers.  
> ...
>Basically, the extra disk seems worthless.

The disk is useful if you need things like the Microsoft
segmented-executable linker (link 5.1) which you need to link
windows Apps. It doesn't come with the SDK. Your compiler still needs
to know how to insert windows prolog/epilog code at the beginning and
end of every function, which some do (borland's do NOT).

Joel Spolsky
spolsky@cs.yale.edu                                     Silence = Death