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Ladsoft / CC386 back online (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 27.02.2008, 19:14

> This is the time now to host GRDB and - at least - VALX here on BTTR!
>
> (CC386 is not that important IMO since OW's WCC386 is better)
I think the stand-alone VALX is probably older than the one included in CC386. Also, remember that CC386 is only like a 2 MB download (DOS version) vs. much more required for other DOS compilers. And it uses a custom NASM as a backend. Granted, you could make a lite OpenWatcom that would only be like 4 MB compressed (11 MB unpacked), and yes, OpenWatcom probably optimizes better (since CC386 isn't really optimizing ... that was one of Ladsoft's goals to fix that, oh well). Still, DJGPP/GCC 4.2.3 is slightly better at optimizing than OpenWatcom even (but requires more memory to compile, at least with -O2).

GRDB, ironically, needs TASM (but a MASM makefile is also included) to reassemble. OpenWatcom's WASM will assemble some (but definitely not all) of the source files for GRDB. I tried "for fun" with WASM recently, and wasn't too disappointed that it didn't work.

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