Interesting decompiler

[Jules Richardson]

Frank McConnell wrote:
> Fred Cisin wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Jules Richardson wrote:
>>> annoyingly, I think that version is too early to support inline assembler,
>>> which makes it less useful for any actual DOS development work :(
>> TurboC 2.0x DOES explicitly support inline assembler.
>>
>> http://bdn.borland.com/article/images/20841/tc20ad.jpg
>> (notice the list of features of TC2.0 in the box at lower left)
> 
> You can write inline assembler in your C source, but the Turbo 2.0x
> compiler can't do the assembly by itself -- it uses Turbo Assembler
> for that.

Aha, yes - I do remember that now. I never did get it to work, though, 
although I don't remember the exact nature of the errors I used to get. I 
think I might still have a TC2.0 environment sitting around on one of the DOS 
hard disks - I'll have a look if I get the chance.

It was quite possibly a case of RTFM and some magic environment variable or 
other setting was needed somewhere - which is OK if you actually have TFM to 
read :-)

I seem to recall that the integrated editor had real trouble with large files 
too - but possibly that was just on machines without any EMS / XMS driver 
voodoo going on. (I'd be surprised if the editor couldn't handle larger files 
- but then, wasn't notepad in the much later Win95 days still limited to 64KB 
max?)

I really must see if I can drag a later TC environment off tape, assuming 
they're still readable...

cheers

Jules

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