geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (10/30/84)
A friend is about to buy a C compiler for his IBM PC. Anybody have any advice? Mail responses, please; if there is enough interest I will summarize to the net. -- Geoff Kuenning First Systems Corporation ...!ihnp4!trwrb!desint!geoff
haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) (11/03/84)
< Nami nami nami ... > > A friend is about to buy a C compiler for his IBM PC. Anybody have any > advice? Mail responses, please; if there is enough interest I'll summarize > to the net. I know I *should* respond by mail, but I just got my DeSmet 'C', and I'm getting all excited about it. The DeSmet compiler costs $109, and is a full implementation of 'C'. It's fast, too; compared to my friend's Microsoft compiler (version 1.xx), compile and link times are down by about 50%. Execution time is up about 5% (non-disk intensive programs). The editor is quite good; it's sort of like vi, (alas, not quite), and is quite fast. DeSmet will only use 64K for code and 64K for stack/heap/data. They do supply a set of functions for doing intersegment copies, though. The library is missing some higher-level file i/o (which I never use, anyway), but includes a great number of PC bios and screen utility routines, much more so than Microsoft. The module sizes are down by a lot, too, partly due to the library, I guess. The librarian can only add modules to the library, and there are some other restrictions, but it also includes an assembler, with inline code option, and several half-decent games. I think this is by far the best value in 'C' compilers for the PC. (It runs on compatibles, too --- mine is a Hyperion). There is also a symbolic debugger (optional, $50) and a Microsoft-format linker ($30). Delivery is fast -- mine was here in a week and a half, all the way from Sunny California to Canada's Winter Wonderland... Tom Haapanen University of Waterloo (519) 744-2468 allegra \ clyde \ \ decvax ---- watmath --- watdcsu --- haapanen ihnp4 / / linus / The opinions herein are not those of my employers, of the University of Waterloo, and probably not of anybody else either.
steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) (11/05/84)
This question seems to turn up every two weeks. Is it time for net.micro.pc.newuser? :-)