3.2 C compiler

[Malcolm Toms]

I currnetly have version 3.0 of Coherent for 286 machines and am
thinkng of upgrading to 3.2.

Question: does the C compiler in 3.2 support "large memory" model
programs or am I going to have to bite the bullet and buy a 486 so I
can run 4.2?

Thanks

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[Fred Butzen]

>
> I currnetly have version 3.0 of Coherent for 286 machines and am
> thinkng of upgrading to 3.2.
>
> Question: does the C compiler in 3.2 support "large memory" model
> programs or am I going to have to bite the bullet and buy a 486 so I
> can run 4.2?
>

Release 3.2 is SMALL model only. Make sure the bullet is lead; that doesn't
hurt so much.

Also, you can run 4.2 on a 386 machine, many of which are quite inexpensive
now.

[Darren Fuerst]

No, 3.2 is still small model only. You'll need a 386 and Coh. 4+ to get
large model code.

BTW, the "small" model does not necessarily mean "useless" model. I did
a lot of development for large Xenix and SGI systems with Coh 3.x. The
small model does force you to think carefully about resource usage -- that
isn't always a bad thing.

Darren

[Michael Gerhards]

In article <toms.76...@sfu.ca> , Malcolm Toms wrote:
> I currnetly have version 3.0 of Coherent for 286 machines and am
> thinkng of upgrading to 3.2.

> Question: does the C compiler in 3.2 support "large memory" model
> programs or am I going to have to bite the bullet and buy a 486 so I
> can run 4.2?

The first version of COHERENT using the flat-memory-model of the i386
was 4.0. You need to upgrade to a 386SX or higher but you don't _need_ a
486.CPU.

Michael
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