les@uwovax.uwo.ca (10/20/89)
Can anyone lead me to a "C" compiler that supports 32 bit integers for 386 machines? Thanks, --- Les Flodrowski CA: les@vaxi.uwo.CA Social Science Computing Laboratory Bitnet: les@uwovax.BITNET University of Western Ontario UUCP: les@julian.UUCP London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2 (...!watmath!julian..)
madd@world.std.com (jim frost) (10/22/89)
In article <3949.253dd544@uwovax.uwo.ca> les@uwovax.uwo.ca writes: | Can anyone lead me to a "C" compiler that supports 32 bit integers for |386 machines? Sure; under UNIX all of them do. (I'm being flippant, I know, but you didn't specify an OS.) Seriously, if an advertisement for a compiler mentions 386 support, it'll do them. If it doesn't it most likely won't because advertisers aren't likely to pass up such a feature. Most of the common compilers (eg MSC, Turbo C) don't have this support. jim frost software tool & die madd@std.com
palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) (10/24/89)
From article <3949.253dd544@uwovax.uwo.ca>, by les@uwovax.uwo.ca: > > Can anyone lead me to a "C" compiler that supports 32 bit integers for > 386 machines? It's a better question to ask: Can anyone lead me to a "C" compiler that supports 32 bit pointers with a linear address space and an Optimizer that dosn't create infinite loops and supports huge arrays with no boundary's and also supports up to 16 meg of addressing in the protected mode? ---Bob -- Bob Palowoda pacbell!indetech!palowoda *Home of Fiver BBS* login: bbs Home {sun|daisy}!ys2!fiver!palowoda (415)-623-8809 1200/2400 Work {sun|pyramid|decwrl}!megatest!palowoda (415)-623-8806 2400/9600/19200 TB Voice: (415)-623-7495 Public access UNIX XBBS
chan@eeserv (Andrew Chan) (10/25/89)
In article <1989Oct21.185658.2287@world.std.com> madd@world.UUCP (jim frost) writes: >Seriously, if an advertisement for a compiler mentions 386 support, >it'll do them. If it doesn't it most likely won't because advertisers >aren't likely to pass up such a feature. Most of the common compilers >(eg MSC, Turbo C) don't have this support. > Check out WATCOM-C (by U of Waterloo), they came up with a C compiler that is supposed to be tailored for 386's. I hear that WATCOM-C is really a very fast and powerful package. It is just that they are not well known enough. An article in Dr. Dobb's Journal last year had a review on various C compilers. There is also a software house giving up MSC and use Watcom-C instead (they produce some kind of database package).