WLIM@MIT-XX.ARPA (04/19/84)
From: Willie Lim <WLIM@MIT-XX.ARPA> I got my C86 V2.1 about a week ago. Tried it out and it seemed to work. Programs that were compiled under the old version seem to have no problems with V2.1. .EXE modules are smaller though. The new version comes with Marion, an object librarian that "maintains a Micro-soft format library of object modules". V2.1 has 4 passes (preprocessor, parser, code generator, and code generator) instead of just 3. Library sources come with the compiler as before. There are 124 library functions plus software (i.e. no 8087 chip) and hardware (with 8087 chip) 8087 math routines. .LIB files come in 8 flavors - combinations of large/small modules, all versions of DOS/only DOS 2.0, and software/hardware 8087 math option. Compiler output is either a .OBJ file or assembly source code. The documentation is better than the old one. Willie -------