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From: scotte@locus.com (Scott D. Eberline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Power-C and other cheap C compilers
Message-ID: <23438@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 05:19:23 GMT
References: <777@gcc.uucp> <1991Apr10.141921.11865@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
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From article <777@gcc.uucp>, by stu870344@gcc.uucp (Yngwie):
> I am considering buying POWER C by Mix Software.  Does anyone
> have any comments about POWER C or any suggestions for other
> cheap C compilers??  I'm just learning C, so I need a pretty
> good manual to lead me through the language.

I've been generally pleased with Power C.  I've been *very* pleased with
the Power C-Trace debugger, available for another $20 or so, and I wish
it supported CodeView-format debugging data.

>      Any information about affordable C compilers (affordable
> meaning less than $100) or references to help me in my trek
> through C will be most graciously appreciated.

DJ Delorie's freely distributable port of GNU gcc/g++ to DOS has attracted
a lot of attention recently.  It does require a 386 or 486, but it comes
with a DOS extender.

In article <1991Apr10.141921.11865@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) writes:
>altering the segment names?  (If you read between the lines, I
>think we could make a MS SDK compatible compiler out of this

Won't fly, Orville.  The documented compiler switch to generate .OBJ object
files instead of .MIX is not implemented.  The compiler has a hard-coded
symbol table size that barfs on windows.h.  There's no way to generate the
windows function prefix code a la CL /GW.

Mix Tech Support tells me that they are working on a Mix MSWindows Toolchest,
but have no dates set yet.
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Scott D. Eberline		scotte@locus.com  or  uunet!lcc!scotte