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From: jlh@loral.UUCP (Physically Pffft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS QuickC Misinformation
Keywords: Misinformation misinformation
Message-ID: <1860@loral.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 22:44:29 GMT
References: <2041@unmvax.unm.edu>
Reply-To: jlh@loral.UUCP (Physically Phffft)
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In article <2041@unmvax.unm.edu> wampler@unmvax.unm.edu (Bruce Wampler) writes:
>I've seen several postings that continue to repeat the common
>misconception that QuickC supports only the Medium Memory model.
>This simply is NOT TRUE.
>
>QuickC supports a command line sequence (qcl) that supports almost
>all the switches that 5.1 does (cl) (except the optimization switches
>and a couple of other small features.) I find I can build almost
>any size/model program using qcl for debugging, then build the
>final version in cl. This is a very useful combination for serious
>development work.
>

I hate to disagree, but after getting bit by 2 bugs in qcl's large model
I deleted it from my disk.  I also seem to remember reading in the manual
at the time that Microsoft (do they object to the name usoft?) said it
was for medium model programming only, integrated environment or not.
Both bugs I found had to do with segmentation problems, if I wasn't so
familiar with 8086 programming I would have never found the problem.
Sorry I can't be more specific but it's been 6 months now.
I should mention that this was version 5.0, if the large model works in
5.1 I'd love to hear about it.  Please don't say "My sisters third cousin
removed uses it for everything", I just want to hear "I've used quick C
version 5.1 large model for months now with no problems".

							Jim


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