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- Subject: Re: Recommendation for 32-bit C compiler?
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- Eric Postpischil (edp@math.zk3.dec.com) wrote:
- *chop*
-
- : I would like a compiler that presents me with a flat address space,
- : including a nice big stack if I want it. If it has to run with some sort
- : of shell under DOS, so be it. I'm even willing to install Linux if
- : necessary.
-
- : All I want is ANSI C; I don't need extensions or hooks into the
- : operating system or Windows capability. This is largely to write
- : programs that do various computations, often mathematical, sometimes
- : mostly integer operations and sometimes mostly floating point. Some
- : extras like a debugger and/or the capability to compile with array
- : bounds checking would be nice but are not necessary.
-
- : What's available? Does such a compiler come with Linux? Does GNU have a
- : 32-bit compiler that runs under DOS? Is there a good shareware compiler
- : or an inexpensive commercial compiler?
- GCC comes with any Linux distribution.. gcc-2.7.0 is the most recent
- version that's stable. (2.7.2 is most recent but the info file says it has
- bugs on x86 compiling.) 2.6.x and 2.5.8 is also fine. It is of course
- 32-bit, and is free 8-). ANSI C, reasonably close to the recent drafts of
- ANSI C++ (and objective-C ability is there too), and with Linux's include
- files, almost all BSD stuff will compile, POSIX compliant, a few other
- things compatible 8-).
- DJGPP is a compiler that along with some runtime 32-bit DOS extender
- provides flat memory for DOS.. I don't know where to get it from though.
- There should be a pointer at ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu.
- : -- edp (Eric Postpischil)
- : "Always mount a scratch monkey."
- : edp@edp.org
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