Bonjour, Peter!

Suite au message de Peter Fitzsimmons a Matthew Smith:

 MS>> What exactly do I need to develop a DIVE-enabled 
 MS>> application?  DART enabled? Please don't tell me I 
 MS>> have to go spend $200 on a Devcon subscription. . .

 PF> That's the only answer (although IBM VA C++ contains a version of the
 PF> toolkit that might have DIVE -- i'm not sure).

 PF> To add salt to the wounds of you devcon-holdouts,  now you are missing
 PF> out on a complete copy of IBM VA C++ which is on devcon 9.

Complete ? It is still 60-days limited. That would be ok if it worked...
But it is VERY buggy. The Workframe 3 is so slow (even on a P100 with
accelerated S3 968 video and 32 MB RAM), and has so many bugs, it's much
faster to build makefiles yourself !
Worse, I have not been convinced AT ALL by the new version of the compiler.
My code breaks completely with it ! It worked fine with C Set ++ 2.1 as long
as I didn't use optimizations (which made it crash!). But now even without
them it hangs everywhere inside the C runtime libraries ! I don't know
what I can do about this.
Plus, 2 out of 6 assembly object files won't link anymore with VAC++, for
no apparent reason ... I had to make a DLL just for them (built with the
older
linker!).
Since I saw a lot of VAC++ CSDs on Devcon 9, I decided to give them a shot.
But for some reason, I can't get any CSD to apply onto that time-limited
version ! I hope there is a way to patch it, because as released it is
simply unusable !

A bientot !

 [Julien, membre de Team OS/2]

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