stu@stu.scs.com (Stu Brown) (12/10/90)
Last week I posted a question about using Quick C & Assembler 2.51
versus Microsoft C 6.0 on a large application, the PCIP tcp/ip
package from MIT. Here is a followup.
I decided to buy the Quick C & Assembler package. I compiled and assembled the
PCIP package with small modifications to makefiles intended for regular
Microsoft C. All of the utilities I needed were included with the
Quick C package: linker, librarian, compiler, assembler, make (called nmake).
I compiled and assembled about 16,500 lines of code in various PCIP
libraries. The only "bug" I found is that the compiler complains
when you call a function which is later declared as static. For example:
main()
{
...
myfunc(a);
...
}
static myfunc(x)
{
...
}
The compiler quits on a fatal error about a changing declaration. This is
fixed by declaring the function at the top of the program:
static myfunc();
main()
{
...
myfunc(a);
...
}
static myfunc(x)
{
...
}
I linked up the ping program and it worked. I have not
tried the larger application, telnet.
As I understand from a comparison sheet that Microsoft puts
out that compares Quick C with regular C, the only significant difference
is the level of optimization available. I don't know if the library support
is different since PCIP relies very little on libraries
(it implements most functions itself). I was very happy to save about $300.
--
Stuart Brown
Mentor Graphics Corporation
Silicon Design Division (N.J.)
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