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From: tjr@cbnewsc.att.com (thomas.j.roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Zortech 2.0 vs Turbo C++
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.173040.24088@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 25 Jan 91 17:30:40 GMT
References: <6901@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <6901@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM>, by waynet@kit.CNA.TEK.COM (Wayne Turner):
> 
> I am working on a project that links in 70 OBJS, all with compiled
> with debug info.  Total lines of source code is about 6000.  Load
> image size about 270K.  Version 2.10 of Zortech debugger (zdb286) routinely
> crashed when all modules contained debug info but version 2.10C
> has worked OK so far. 

I have a program with 12 .cpp files, about 6000 lines of C++, and a
.exe file size of 317kb. TC++ 1.01 compiles and links them all, with
debugging enabled. I have had NO PROBLEMS with TC++ 1.01 at all,
except for its dastardly way of never releasing its EMS segment
when it exits (but I have a workaround using an EMS tool).

Note that TC++ grinds to a slow crawl if you don't have EMS or XMS
(1Mb or more). I use it on both an old PC6300 (8MHz 8086, 640 kb +
2Mb EMS) and a 6386/SX (16 MHz 80386SX, 640k RAM + 1Mb XMS).

I am a satisfied user of TC++ 1.01, but sure wish they would come
out with a Windows 3.0 developer's toolkit.

Tom Roberts
att!ihlpl!tjrob  TJROB@IHLPL.ATT.COM