On 15 Aug 2012 at 20:54, David Griffith wrote:
I'm quite sure the casts are okay. So, if I
somehow dig up an old
Microsoft C compiler, I should be fine? I'm trying to keep this thing
compatible with pre-386 for the simple reason of playing old Infocom
games on old machines.
Should be--I've got tons of old MSVC 16-bit code that uses 32 bits.
Some of it even uses 64 bit integers (a little assembly library
there). No problems at all.
MSVC 8.00c is very stable. I think it was the last 16-bit C that
Microsoft shipped.
--Chuck