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echo: aust_c_here
to: david nugent
from: Peter Collis
date: 1996-03-26 14:07:04
subject: wanted MS C v6

While listening to david nugent Pete heard:wanted MS C v6

G'day david

 > I need a copy of MS C v6.0 because I want to use a developer's kit
 > that ONLY supports that compiler.

 ac> FWIW, Microsoft QuickC 2.5 for DOS is a cut-down version of
 ac> Microsoft C 6.0.

 dn> Almost everything except the optimiser. Personally, the only
 dn> reason I ever liked Microsoft compilers is *because* of the
 dn> optimiser. But QC also had some other limitations; for example,
 dn> it couldn't do p-code, produce protected mode  object files,
 dn> output assembler from C and do inline assembler (there were
 dn> probably more - I never used QC, so it was never an issue).

Your wrong about the Inline assembler point, i use QC25 quite
a bit and it definitely supports it, ie,

_asm {
.
.
asm code here
.
.
}

is supported

   -=Pete=-


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