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- From: aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
- Subject: Re: Why no source control in Borland
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 05:01:58 GMT
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- In <1601@cogsci.ucsd.EDU> hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) writes:
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- > In article <1992Sep10.052148.10777@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- > >It strikes me as starnge that given the current size of the Borland C++ 3.1
- > >compiler package, that there is no source control system.
- > >
- > >Currently, the full package has every conceivable feature you could want
- > >except source control and OS/2 support [oops, wrong winge]. The only
-
- > And 32-bit code generation, and a DOS extender (32-bit would be nice, 16-bit
- > would be OK, the Phar Lap "Lite" they included with the upgrade was a table
- > scrap, and a shameless example of commercial crippleware), and probably a few
- > other things I can't think of right now.
-
- I'm really surprised that Borland can't generate 32-bit code now. Or can it?
- I know that the 386/486 have one-byte opcode prefixes that force the next
- opcode, if it would normally be an 8-bit instruction, then to do the right
- thing but with 32 bits. (In "native" 32-bit mode, the same opcode toggles
- this to mean the opposite.) So, you can assemble code *right now* that will
- run on 386/486 in normal, icky real mode that can use the full 32-bit
- registers. (I'm not sure how this works with the processor's pointers,
- though.)
-
- So how much effort would it take (and how much CPU time would it save!!) to
- convert all thoses uses of long (and int!!!) to 32 bit instructions?
-
- Or is this being done already and am I years behind??
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