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From: chad@lakesys.UUCP (Chad Gibbons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: C compiler choices
Summary: MicroSoft versus Turbo
Keywords: msc, tc
Message-ID: <589@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 89 23:28:14 GMT
Reply-To: chad@lakesys.UUCP (Chad Gibbons)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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	This query has undoubtable been experessed before, however, I
never saw it.

	Seeing as how there are two major C compilers for the DOS
environment, there is definately cause for comparison of the two.  I have
had a chance to use both MicroSoft and Turbo versions of C compilers for
less than perhaps five minutes and have not read a great deal of
literature on either of them.  I can not, therefore, make a good value
judgement on which one to use for major application work.  I am led into
an interesting paradox between the two, due majorly to the fact of
MicroSoft's reputation, and reviews of Turbo.

	I often see ads for TurboC given statistics on it's speed in areas
of compile time, execution time, and code size.  In addition, Turbo has
the advanced debugger which I have used in the Pascal environment.  I
have never had the chance to use CodeView in any environment, and thus
can't judge it.  I do seem to recall that Codeview does not yet have
support for 386 Virtual-86 mode, so there is one point for Turbo.

	I have also heard reports of numerous bugs within MicroSoft's
version: alias optimization may be invalid, far points being switched
with nears, etc.  So this almost puts me to going with Turbo without a
doubt.  However, knowning MicroSoft, I must hold some doubts.

	If I may, I would like to leach on some of the net's knowledge of
these two compilers and which one would be the overall supreme choice for
applications which use the full power of a iAPx86 machine.
-- 
D. Chadwick Gibbons, chad@lakesys.lakesys.com, ...!uunet!marque!lakesys!chad