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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Vs. Borland
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Date: 8 Oct 88 14:43:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Oct  8 09:43:00 1988


	>About porting - I have Zortech and MSC 5.1. I've been having
>some problems with a particular program that I compiled with MSC, so
>I thought "Hey, I'll just use Zortech, and see if it's a compiler
>problem". False. Zortech totally choked on the code. I couldn't find
>a way to turn off its desire to do function prototype checking. It
>was also missing include files such as "sys/types.h". So I'd have to
>give only marginal marks as a C compiler. On the other hand, although
>I've only done some small programs, I like it as a *C++* compiler,
>which is what I bought it for anyway.

>P.S. The code was Doug McDonald's DVIVGA program, which is based on
>Nelson Beebe's DVIxxx programs.
                                   ^^^^^^

I wrote that program. It is not a fair compiler test, not even for
IBM-PC compilers. It is full of MSC-5.1-ism's (proprietary function calls),
and will die during compilation without some bizarre compile-line
switches ( -DANSI_LIBRARY -DANSI_PROTOTYPES).

It is a nice program (advertisement), just blatently non-portable.
All the Beebe programs are dependent on the compile-line things,
depending on the operating system.

Doug McDonald