Re: IBM C Set/2 & MS 32bit C compiler (beta)

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From: joe2
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 10:59

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In <1992Aug11.082417.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> Ivan Leong writes:
>If I remember correctly, in one of the msgs I read that IBM C Set/2's compiler
>is the derivation of MS C 32bit compiler.
>
>I recently came across a package, MS OS/2 2.0 SDK and Languages. Inside,
>there're MS LAN Manager drvs for OS/2, MS 32bit C compiler (CL386), Codeview
>32bit (CV386) and 32bit vers of the usual stuff (.LIB, .H, etc).
>
>From the skimpy docs, it's beta code, contain bugs and certain things don't
>work. Most of the files are dated around May 92 and Jun 90. My MSC6.00 is dated
>Mar 90.
>
>Is this the IBM C Set/2 in its early days? If it is, was IBM C Set/2 modified
>much to be different from this MS 32bit C compiler?
>

   No, CL386 is Microsoft 32bit C, while C Set/2 has been written
from scratch, by IBM Toronto labs.

-Joel Armengaud

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