Dave Smith wrote in a message to Joey Mukherjee:

 DS> I use the XBBS OS/2 and have had NO problem with the
 DS> included EXE file. I am not sure it will compile on Watcom
 DS> but see no reason why it shouldn't. It will compile and runs
 DS> well using C 6.0a.

In general, Watcom C 10.0 (OS/2 16-bit) is considerably more strict that
Microsoft C 6.0.  Minor errors, such as declaring a function static but not
defining it as static will cause the Watcom compiler to halt with an error,
while the Microsoft compiler plows right through without even a warning.

Watcom also has more intelligent warnings.  It caught a bug for me
yesterday in some old code that had been out for a while under Microsoft C:

   if(flag && num = 1)

Watcom issued a warning about "assignment in boolean expression,"
correctly suggesting that I intended "==" rather than
"=".
 
-- Mike


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