Hallo Bart,
We'll make a deal. If Borland fixes their bug in 32RTM as part of open sourcing their old 16bit targetting compiler (even lower than the chance that RBIL will be updated) I'll go for it ;)
And this means - never, and you know it! ;-)
I do recognize other compilers but...
Glad to hear that! ;-)
BC isn't a target for freedos optimizations; there's one and only one target to optimize for : WATCOM. so BC specific optimization is a waste of time (ours and yours)
True, but my optimisation isn't BC-specific. It's beneficial for all compilers but Watcom! ;-)
Besides, you know that Borland C++ 4.0 produces the smallest possible packed kernel binary file. Sometimes kernel file size is what matters (for floppy and ROM disks) and sometimes - the resident size in RAM (where Watcom is the king), if the DOS is in low RAM or if there is no cache. Depends.
This is not to say that I like Borland. They added 3DNow! to their inline assembler in C++Builder 6, but NOT in their TASM, which makes me extremely angry at them! But on the other hand, Datalight still use Borland as their one and only compiler for ROM-DOS. If it was so bad, would they use it?
This just being tom's opinion but I still agree -- I even agree more than I did a couple months ago, that's why I rejected my own idea of using "_seg *" pointers. I played for a while again with Turbo C++ back then but in the end decided that the difference was just too big.
I agree that this was a right decision.
Bart, some programmers claim that the only true Watcom is 10.6-, and 11.0+ is NO LONGER WATCOM as it was RUINED by Sybase. I have compared the code generated by both, and the difference is not so big, plus the code by 11.0+ is more optimal. What you can say on these Watcom version differences?
Regards, Lucho
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