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From: dc@presto.ruhr.de (David Channing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: looking for info on C compilers
Message-ID: <1610106@presto.ruhr.de>
Date: 16 Feb 91 10:51:16 GMT
References: <1991Feb12.175253.1087@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <1991Feb13.020034.654@actrix.gen.nz> <2303@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>
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In article <2303@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:
> 
> >Turbo C.
> >
> >There is also Lattice C5, from HiSoft, these two seem to be the best of the C
> >compilers for the Atari.
> 
> Does anyone know if these two compilers have any kind of support for DRI link
> format? 

Turbo-C supports the DRI format as well as it's own link format.

> I know that one of the problems with link format support is the calling
> conventions used. DRI stacks the parameters and use words or longwords.
> Un*x style would stack only longs and passing paramters in registers would
> also increase speed. Perhaps these optins are selectable.

Turbo-C normally passes as many parameters as possible in registers. You can 
turn this off for any function with the declaration 'cdecl'; the parameters are
then passed on the stack.

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