Conference 7.286::atarist

4.0. "Turbo-C on the ST" by ROLLIN::BAILEY (Steph Bailey) Mon Apr 04 1988 17:28

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     On the  Hannover-Fair CeBit, Borland/Heimsoeth presented TURBO-C for
     the Atari ST!
     
     Heimsoeth is  the  german general (and exclusive) distributor of all
     BORLAND Products (they  supplied  the  german  language manuals, and
     provide the technical hotline for Turbo-languages).
     
     With help from a not-named german software-company  and  Borland/USA
     itself,  Heimsoeth  programmers  developed  TURBO-C for the ATARI-ST
     which ist based on the IBM-PC Turbo-C Version 1.5.
     
     The  presented  Beta-release (the final Version will be available in
     May) suprised with compile- and link-times, that I only have seen on
     a 10 MHZ IBM PC/AT !  It was faster then any other C-Compiler on the
     Atari - even two times faster then Magamax-C!
     
     This is a list of the most important features:
     - full K&R implementation including ANSI-definition
     - compiles 8000 lines/minute - one pass
     - 1470 dhrystones/s
     - manual in german language (well, it's an german product)
     - enhanced LINT and MAKE integrated
     - produces DR-compatible linkable object-files
     - TOS-library for TOS-, BIOS- and XBIOS-calls
     - GEM-library for AES- and VDI-functions
     
     Heimsoeth states that the compiler compiles most PC Turbo-C  sources
     with  no  or   minor  modification  (well  of  cource  there  is  no
     MSDOS-library in Atari Turbo-C).   The programming-environment looks
     nearly the same as on  the IBM PC, with some enhancements due to the
     GEM  environment  (i.e.    multible  source-windows  etc..).    Most
     functions  (Compile,  Make,  etc)  are  available  with    a  single
     keystroke.    Even  the  Online-Help-Function  of  Turbo  C  1.5  is
     available  on  the  Atari  Version.
     
     A commandline-version  of the compiler ist included in  the  package
     and for addidional charge they include an assembler  and  a symbolic
     debbuger  (You  can  include 68000 menmonics into the source).    In
     contrast to the PC-Version, there are no memory-models in the  Atari
     Version;  code  and  data  of your propgram is only limited by  your
     memory.  Turbo-C  Atari  and  its  ANSI-runtime  library  are  fully
     written in 68000 assembler.
     
     Ears up:
     Borland states that the Atari ST  Version  of  Turbo  C  will not be
     distributed outside West-Germany!  (In Germany the  ST outsolds both
     Amiga and MacIntosh together)
            						h.b. & g.s.
     Hilmar@MUH.