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- From: mounil@mathworks.com (Mounil Patel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Microsoft C 5.1/6.0 Question
- Message-ID: <C1H9u1.I3C@MathWorks.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:20:25 GMT
- References: <1k3kmiINNnmn@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- >Microsoft C 5.1/6.0 Question
- In article <1k3kmiINNnmn@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> Charles Bennett
- Smith, bsmith@ecst.csuchico.edu writes:
- >I was wondering if anyone had information on Microsoft C 6.0. The
- >company I am working for is still using Microsoft C 5.1 because they
- >maintain that 6.0 was very buggy and did not work properly. The thing
- >is, they are not using any optimizer switches on the 5.1 compiler because
- >they apparently don't work correctly.
-
- I advise you to stick with MSC 5.1. MSC 6.0 had a lot of problems which
- caused us to step back to 5.1. I really think C/C++ 7.0 is the best
- choice, and it is still a full ANSI C compiler, but that's not an option
- for you.
-
- -Mounil
-