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From: connery@bnrmtv.UUCP (Glenn Connery)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: support for large mem?
Message-ID: <165@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 13:01:31 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 13:01:31 1985
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>     We are looking for a C compiler for the Intel
>     80188 CPU that automatically supports the large
>     memory model...

Sorry, am new to the net and can't seem to get mail to work (tried doing
a reply, and got back "remote execution... rmail gamma!... exited with
status 138... sh: 7509 Bus error - core dumped").  Not sure if this is
actually my fault or not...

Anyway, I'd recommend the Microsoft 3.0 C compiler, which at this point
is the most professional on the block (the only other one I'd consider
using is the Desmet C88 compiler because of its speed/small size).  It
supports the 8018x and 8028x instruction sets, small, medium and large
memory models, FAR/NEAR/HUGE overrides (which might be all you need),
support for the new ANSI standard library and lint-style type checking
of type coercion and procedure call parameters, etc.   It has a REALLY
GOOD manual, and produces small fast code.  The major disadvantage is that
it is reasonably large--with all the libraries and include files I wouldn't
want to try using it on a floppy based system.  And its speed isn't
amazing, but no worse than say Lattice or CI86.  The definitive review
is in the August 85 Dr. Dobbs Journal... which should get you any info
you might want

...Glenn