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BIG "C" compiler cmp | the "scientific" facts ore out DW (Developers)

posted by DOS386, 01.05.2008, 04:41

> You can't (easily?) access the Win32 APIs with it
T.R.N. & Co. should just switch to MinGW, problem vanished :hungry:

> Unavoidable, I guess, unless you want to exclude it (unwise, since XP is
> ubiquitous, at least for now).
Why not, MenuetOS apps don't work "natively" in XP either, and nobody cries :-)

> Not really sure what that means (WLINK bugs fixed?). AFAIK, it has always
> worked on DOS.
IIRC 1.5 didn't.

> > + Comes with WASM, a free "unusable toy" clone of MASM
> Not unusable, but not quite perfect. You can't necessarily expect all your
> old MASM code to assemble without problems.
Obsolete problem :-)

> > + Supports DOS/32A and D3X extender
> The version of DOS/32A included is 7.xx, which is obsolete.
NO. 7.xx is fine besides 9.xx. OTOH complete DOS/32A using the WATCOM design could be considered as obsolete in favor of LOADPEX.

> BTW, OpenWatcom targets .OBJ directly (I think), so you need WDIS to
> convert to assembly source. This is what "OWCC -S" (GCC compiler driver
> clone) does.
OK ... I'll check. Still, direct NASM/FASM output is ways better.

> > - WASM is bad and not really progressing
> That's true, nobody is officially working on it.

No longer. :-)

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