[comp.lang.c] Request for 80386 compiler information

pjm@ut-emx.UUCP (Phillip MacQueen) (10/16/89)

  I plan to purchase a '386 compiler to run on a PC-compatible system with
a Weitek 3167 FPA.  I am considering Metaware's High-C and MicroWay's NDP-C.
I have all the advertising information about them, and have read two reviews of
High-C.  Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any independent information
about NDP-C, or about High-C versus NDP-C.
  I am hoping that someone on the net will be able to give me some first-hand
impressions of NDP-C.  I am also very keen to hear any information about the
relative performance of these compilers.
  Please send me a copy of any responses via e-mail.  Thanks in advance.

jimb@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Jim Belesiu) (10/17/89)

We are currently using NDP C386 from Microway to write code for an 
embedded controller.  My general feeling is that the compiler is just
O.K.  We are still using a buggy beta version of the compiler (2.02), the
support from Microway pales from what I am used to from Microsoft, and the
documentation is woefully out of date.  But, they promised new stuff real
soon now...