DOS ain't dead - Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32

Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 (Developers)

posted by ecm , Düsseldorf, Germany, 12.11.2009, 15:04

> (not to mention big/little-endian, INT_MAX, etc).

Endianness shouldn't matter unless your program directly accesses (network/file) structures which are transfered to other systems. With the CRT, you access files either in text mode or byte by byte (where you can simply add support to the code which directly reads and writes the file).

> Still uses MSVCRT, though. It wouldn't be that bad except there is no real
> free alternative (no drop-in replacement, I mean, unless you run under
> WINE, assuming it even works there).

I'd assume either it works under WINE, or WINE provides it's own replacement.

> Virtualization helps, but it's still way too slow [...] to be a quick fix.

It's no quick fix if it's slow.

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Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Rugxulo, 30.10.2009, 21:28 (Developers)
- Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - Japheth, 31.10.2009, 09:21
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    - Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - DOS386, 06.11.2009, 05:44
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        Borland C/C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 - RayeR, 12.11.2009, 12:08
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