Frank McConnell wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Jules Richardson wrote:
annoyingly, I think that version is too early to
support inline assembler,
which makes it less useful for any actual DOS development work :(
TurboC 2.0x DOES
explicitly support inline assembler.
http://bdn.borland.com/article/images/20841/tc20ad.jpg
(notice the list of features of TC2.0 in the box at lower left)
You can write inline assembler in your C source, but the Turbo 2.0x
compiler can't do the assembly by itself -- it uses Turbo Assembler
for that.
Aha, yes - I do remember that now. I never did get it to work, though,
although I don't remember the exact nature of the errors I used to get. I
think I might still have a TC2.0 environment sitting around on one of the DOS
hard disks - I'll have a look if I get the chance.
It was quite possibly a case of RTFM and some magic environment variable or
other setting was needed somewhere - which is OK if you actually have TFM to
read :-)
I seem to recall that the integrated editor had real trouble with large files
too - but possibly that was just on machines without any EMS / XMS driver
voodoo going on. (I'd be surprised if the editor couldn't handle larger files
- but then, wasn't notepad in the much later Win95 days still limited to 64KB
max?)
I really must see if I can drag a later TC environment off tape, assuming
they're still readable...
cheers
Jules
--
there's a carp in the tub
there's a carp in the tub
so nobody's taken a bath