DOS ain't dead - Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32

Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 (Developers)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 12.11.2009, 12:08

> Well, most of what I meant is that developers no longer test (or care)
> about anything older than XP.

I do. And I like there are people who trying to rise up win9x with new API funcs - project KernelEx.

> Inline assembly, C99, and libc are all vastly different, so it's a bit
> harder than it sounds (not to mention big/little-endian, INT_MAX, etc).

I don't use much of C99 extension and those I used works on all system, inline asm is count to HW stuffs, in libc I had one problem with format string for long long which is %llu but under mingw needs %UI64 or so. Compiler doesn't say any warning but just truncate the output. ARM and AVR use little endian, no prob.

> Which is yet another pain. But no, I mean you can't even rely on a DOS app
> to run on all DOS-compatibles and Windows anymore. Win32 doesn't run on all
> Win32 anymore, and many ELFs require specific libraries (or even kernels)
> which is bad for compatibility (e.g. FreeBSD still doesn't have Linux 2.6
> emulation). Virtualization helps, but it's still way too slow and bloated
> to be a quick fix.

And what do with it? Start to programm in Java or C#? No thanks (useless for light embedded system).

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Complete thread:

Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Rugxulo, 30.10.2009, 21:28 (Developers)
- Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Japheth, 31.10.2009, 09:21
  - Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Rugxulo, 31.10.2009, 19:49
    - Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - DOS386, 06.11.2009, 05:44
      - Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Rugxulo, 07.11.2009, 17:33
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - DOS386, 08.11.2009, 05:22
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Rugxulo, 09.11.2009, 04:36
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - RayeR, 10.11.2009, 10:08
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Rugxulo, 11.11.2009, 01:06
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - RayeR, 11.11.2009, 03:12
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Rugxulo, 11.11.2009, 04:51
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - RayeR, 12.11.2009, 01:49
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Rugxulo, 12.11.2009, 03:04
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - RayeR, 12.11.2009, 12:08
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - ecm, 12.11.2009, 15:04
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 | MinGW - DOS386, 15.11.2009, 11:18
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 | MinGW - Rugxulo, 15.11.2009, 18:03
        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 | MinGW - DOS386, 22.11.2009, 11:48
- Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - marcov, 01.11.2009, 00:18
  - Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Rugxulo, 01.11.2009, 04:26