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You might want to look at Watcom C.  It comes with a Dos extender that
allows you to work in flat memory model and still make dos and bios
calls for i/o.  Also there are a number of such extenders, both
commercial and shareware, that will work with your compiler.  I'm not
sure if you can use them within Windows, but underneath all that VC++
gingerbread is a normal command line compiler;  MSC 8.0.

Watcom's debugger might work with their extender.  I haven't used it so
I'm not sure.

A simpler approach that can be used in a few situations is to find the
file unreal10.zip at some ftp site.  It shows how to set up flat
memory and run dos and dos programs with no problems.  The program
has to load within the 1 meg area because dos is limited to that, but
it has all of memory to play with.  The problem with it is that you
can't run a program that goes into protected mode and you can't have
a memory manager.  Other than that it works just fine.

I hope that helps.

Barry


Eric Postpischil (edp@math.zk3.dec.com) wrote:
: I would like recommendations for a 32-bit C compiler to use on a PC.  I
: have Microsoft Visual C/C++ 1.5, but I am sick and tired of having the
: segmentation limit my use of stack or other memory. The Visual C manuals
: refer to a 32-bit compiler, but if such a thing is present on the
: product I have, its location eludes me. Maybe they're referring to some
: capability to compile stuff for Win32, which isn't what I want.

: I would like a compiler that presents me with a flat address space,
: including a nice big stack if I want it. If it has to run with some sort
: of shell under DOS, so be it. I'm even willing to install Linux if
: necessary.

: All I want is ANSI C; I don't need extensions or hooks into the
: operating system or Windows capability. This is largely to write
: programs that do various computations, often mathematical, sometimes
: mostly integer operations and sometimes mostly floating point. Some
: extras like a debugger and/or the capability to compile with array
: bounds checking would be nice but are not necessary.

: What's available? Does such a compiler come with Linux? Does GNU have a
: 32-bit compiler that runs under DOS? Is there a good shareware compiler
: or an inexpensive commercial compiler?


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