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

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 30.08.2007, 20:48

> there are probably some points missing:
>
> [-] CC386 has a rather small "user base", so the possibility that it will
> be you who discovers new bugs is rather high.
Yes, but it's worth it, CC386 is very useful and fun too. :-)

CC386 has improved a lot since I've been testing (past year or two), due more to David's massive work ethic than mine. :-)

> [-] CC386 is a "one person" project, which most likely will die if this
> person looses interest.
He hasn't lost interest yet, and it's been a few years. :-D

> [-] CC386 has no debugging support for 32bit protected-mode DOS.
+v used to work (but I haven't tried it recently), doesn't that count? (Or did you mean symbolic or source-level only?)

> IMO, taking everything into account, Open Watcom currently is ways more
> important for DOS than CC386.

Well, it's more ambitious since it covers 16-bit and 32-bit stuff (as well as other OSes). It's indeed very good (and used a lot because it's the official compiler of FreeDOS). Some things of theirs won't compile with CC386 because of explicit 16-bit support (e.g. XCOPY).

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