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Subject: Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC  Here's a good rating comparision
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:44:52 -0400
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In group rec.games.programmer, Avery Lee says...
> 
> COFF.
> 
> My experience is that you can't really combine .OBJ files from different
> compilers because the compiler will generate calls to runtime library
> routines that require initialization during run-time startup.  One of the
> most horrendous is floating-point divide code generated by MSVC++ 4.0, in
> which it checks a flag called __adjust_fdiv and calls a
> Pentium-FDIV-bug-bypassing divide routine if it's set.

Which you could disable, of course (just to make sure you knew!) 
8-)