Re: A86: [OT] C compiler

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Subject: Re: A86: [OT] C compiler
From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:34:05 -0500
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Everything I've seen for the HP was written in asm.  The cpu on those calcs
is slower than the one on the 86 (though they can have more space).

I disagree that C is hard, but combining C and asm does get quite messy.
Ever tried to read or use source code from books like Tricks of the Game
Programming Gurus?  Half C, half 16-bit x86 assembly.  Yuck.  And the sad
part is that you could get better performance out of it compiling the
straight C under Watcom...

> That's how I feel too...but I was just wondering how the HP C Compiler
> worked...C is hard enough as it is...combinig it with asm would just be a
> mess...

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Re: [OT] Re: A86: C compiler

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Re: A86: C compiler

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Re: A86: C compiler

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