To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: building go32 with borland 3.1
From: alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 93 23:19:08 EST
Organization: Disorganization

src4src!mcdhup!rutgers!mcs213k.cs.umr.edu!mcastle writes:

> ie:  can bcc 3.1, when compiling a .c file with the -3 option produce
> 386 specific (and hopefully better) code?
> 
> Does anyone have bcc 3.1 and can test to see if this really is an
> undocumented feature, or merely confusion between compiler and linker
> options.

Borland beta-tester here....

This is off topic, but:

1) the -3 switch is documented.

2) it causes the compiler to do long int arithmetic using 386 instructions,
   rather than calling the library helper functions.

3) as far as I know, that's _all_ it does.

alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
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