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OpenWatcom version 1.7 available | anyone tested it ? (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 29.08.2007, 15:55

> has been fixed in v1.7, so yes, v1.7 works better.
16-bit also works better, or same at least ?

> sure the OW people would be very happy if there is a volunteer thoroughly
> testing the DOS binaries *before* the final version is released. What about
> you? That would be a(nother) good chance to do something constructive for DOS.
Thanks for the idea, but I'm not the appropriate person. As you might know/suspect, my C knowledge (even worse C++ , WATCOM supports - or is supposed to support at least) in not the best (thanks to ladsoft for some recent improvements :-) ) and ... I don't like the language too much (ASM is much better :-) ) and ... see below :-(

rr wrote:

> so much to do in the DOS world... Maybe we should focus on one or two proejcts instead of ten.
Definitely. In "Category: 32-bit C compiler" my priority is CC386 . It is far more promising for DOS and matches my needs much better.

[+] CC386 is much less messy and bloated (very important for me)
[+] CC386 has a very good support (very important for me)
[+] CC386 has an IDE coming (important for me also)
[+] CC386 can output ASM (very important for me)
[+] CC386 supports inline ASM with usable syntax (important for me)
[+] CC386 has a DOS download package (YES, I am sensitive to issues like this)

[-] CC386 supports no C++ (but will later ?) (not important for me)
[-] CC386 doesn't support 16-bit RM (obviously critical for FreeDOS kernel, but not "directly" for me, 16-bit RM C code is disgusting for me :-( )
[-] CC386 can't compile MPXPLAY nor VGAP386 as-is (but the syntax of them is horrrrrible, differences are more than justified)
[-] CC386 has less "optimization" than VCC (probably also GCC and WATCOM) (not very important for me)

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