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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PL/I for 386 or Sun Workstation
Summary: DRI compiler
Message-ID: <3548@rti.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 90 21:16:48 GMT
References: <7469@tank.uchicago.edu> <430@egrunix.UUCP>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <430@egrunix.UUCP>, besler@egrunix.UUCP (Brent Besler) writes:
> may not even be for sale anymore.  It also only produces "8088" code, in  that 
> the old DR compiler can't take advantage of protected more or the Microsoft
> memeory models.  DR may have updated it.
> 					  Brent H. Besler

The old Digital Research PL/I compiler is not to be recommended unless
you are really desperate.  It has numerous horrible bugs, doesn't
support anything but the small memory model, uses only the DOS 1.0
(FCB) file I/O calls, and uses a subroutine calling convention that
is incompatible with everything in the known world.

If you are _really_ masochistic and insist on using it, I can e-mail
the list of some of the bugs we've found with it.

Not to be recommended.

						Bruce C. Wright