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From: hollen@suntory.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Mix C comments??
Keywords: C, compilers
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Date: 20 Jan 88 20:47:33 GMT
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In article <3424@ihlpf.ATT.COM> apxpecc@ihlpf.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Horvath) writes:
>Has anyone had experience with the MIX C compiler and
>utilities.  Can this $40 compiler, debugger, editor package
>be a bonified compiler for a serious C programmer?
>I would appreciate any comments.  How about comparisons to
>Turbo C??
>

I originally bought the MIX C package when it was $89.95 and even at
that price I considered it a bargain.  There are several pros and cons
to this package:

Pro
===
1 - inexpensive
2 - excellent willingness on part of support staff
3 - outstanding documentation
4 - a source level debugger even better than Codeview (Microsoft)
5 - selective optimization for speed/size and ways to access assembly
    modules 
4 - outstanding number of library functions for accessing PC and DOS
    specific functions
Con
===
1 -  Unless changed since a year ago, this compiler does not produce
     .obj files and requires its own linker.  What it produces is a
     .com file with an interpreter at the beginning and P-code
     following.
2 - only produces small model code.
3 - debugger will NOT debug into assembly.


If you are learning C, or writing a small (less than 64k combined
code, data, stack and heap) model program with not much interfacing to
assembly interfacing, this is the package for you.  It is well done
and very useable.  At $39.95 it would be worth it just to get the
documentation.  It is the most informative straightforward
introduction to C I have ever seen as well as numerous clear examples.





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