markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) (04/18/91)
In article <1991Apr18.133035.15827@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (nathan engle) writes: > I was personally very disappointed with the state of first release of >6.00. It had lots of things that just didn't work, and several that did >work but very slowly. For about 4 months I did a complete backtrack and >started moving all my stuff over to Zortech (they send you their bug >list for free). However, eventually 6.00a came out and most of my >complaints were cleared up so I'm running with it right now... I'm having somewhat similar problems now, after finding a problem in QC2.5's incremental linker and object code generation process. What makes it really inaccessible is that they made their object code format proprietary which entails a lengthy period of analysis/decoding/reverse-enginerring. And of course, no source is ever distributed. Pretty much for that reason, I'm seriously considering switching over to GNU's C compiler (ported to DOS), especially if it comes with source. One thing that would have helped is if Microsoft had a place reachable by e-mail to communicate with...
keithro@microsoft.UUCP (Keith ROWE) (04/23/91)
>I'm having somewhat similar problems now, after finding a problem in QC2.5's >incremental linker and object code generation process. What makes it really >inaccessible is that they made their object code format proprietary which >entails a lengthy period of analysis/decoding/reverse-enginerring. And of >course, no source is ever distributed. The MS C 6.0 object code formats, Codeview OMF formats and lots of other good things are available in the "MS C Developer's Toolkit" (part no. 048-044-060). Similar extra information on Windows formats are available in the "Windows Developer's Notebook" (sorry, I don't have the part no. on hand). Either of these can be ordered through the regular telephone channels. We also hosted the Open Tools Summit on April 9 and 10 to make the formats for our next round of language tools available. The notes from this meeting will be available real soon now. I hope this helps, Keith Rowe Program Manager, C Languages Microsoft uunet!microsoft!keithro