Hello Paul!

In a message written on Thursday May 04 1995, Paul Rider insanely
babbles to Paul Sidorsky:

 PR> Kewl, that's what I wanted to hear... Btw, I ordered it on tuesday, and am
 PR> expecting it tomorrow (friday)... I'm elated to hear that they've included
 PR> an assembler for Os/2.. I hope they have a few example prog's, or
 PR> skel's...

There are a number of TASM examples, but I haven't looked at them yet. 
There are also a ton of other example C/C++ programs, though, including the
source code to IBM's Jigsaw, which used to come with OS/2 (2.0 I think,
maybe 2.1). That's gotta be the ultimate example of PM programming.

 PR> Do you know if they have updated their code to allow for labels when using
 PR> inline asm ?

Some third-party code I have that I recompiled under BC++/2 uses labels in
its inline asm, and worked, so the answer is yes.

Borland's been taking a lot of knocks for their OS/2 C compiler, especially
about price.  Sure, the upgrades are expensive, but so's everything
nowadays. Besides, I was able to special-order mine direct from Borland for
only $199.95CDN (complete package, first time) so I don't care.  :-)

Anyhow, In the short time I've been using it, I haven't found any cause to
complain.  Sure there a couple of minor bugs in the IDE, but DOS version
has bugs too.  Everything in that package has worked solidly for me and I
do not mind allocating the needed 70MB of HD space for the entire package. 
TDGX/2 (Turbo Debugger) is absolutely amazing, and the IDE debugger is
equally as helpful.  Whatever these knocks are all about, I can't see why. 
I think you'll be happy with it.  Granted, I'm not a heavy-duty OS/2
developer (yet), but what I have done I haven't had problems doing.

 -- PaulS

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