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From: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: 8086 large model compiler?
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Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 02:04:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  6 02:04:26 1986
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MS-DOS version 3.0 of the Microsoft C Compiler supported large model
programs, reportedly with a few bugs.  The newest release, version 4.0,
available now, supports "huge" model, which is > 64K data, with individual
objects potentially larger than 64K.  Hopefully it will be more robust than
the large and huge model compiler which has been available for XENIX 286 for a
while now.  Actually, SCO is just now releasing a new version of their
XENIX 286 C compiler which should have many of these problems fixed.
We'll see.  As it is now, you use the -Ml or -Mh flags to the C compiler
and then start saying your prayers...

Are you sure that SCO XENIX for the 8086/8 doesn't support large and huge
model programs?  I can't see any reference in my C development manual
to the large/huge models being forbidden under SCO XENIX-86 (although
I only have experience with XENIX-286, the manuals are, I believe, the
same.)  
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
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