Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/02/02/23:16:32
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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