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EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> writes:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:13:02 -0400, EricP wrote:
>>
>>> I've always paid for mine.  My first C compiler came with the WinNT 3.5
>>> beta in 1992 for $99 and came with the development kit,
>>> editor, source code debugger, tools, documentation.
>>> A few hundred bucks is not going to hurt my business.
>>
>> Given that GCC offers more features and generates better code than
>> MSVC, the money may not matter to your business, but the quality of
>> the product will.
>
> GCC is a compiler collection not a integrated development kit for Windows.
> I have no knowledge of what state GCC was in in 1992 but it likely
> did not support the MS enhancements for Win32 programming:
> structured exception handling, various ABI's, inline assembler,
> defined behavior for some of C's undefined behavior,
> later first-class-type support for 64-bit signed and unsigned integers,
> and most important:  integration with the GUI source code debugger.
>
> Plus come with necessary API headers, various link libraries and DLL's,
> supporting applications, documentation.
> You know... what a product looks like.

I am currently in the position of needing to take some code
written for Linux/Unix and get it running in MS Windows.

My attempts to use MSVC have been frustrating, because of some
limitations of that environment.  The two most prominent are
these:  long double is only 64 bits, and there are no integer
types of 128 bits that I could find.

Are there any MSVC folks here who can help with these problems?
I am not an MSVC expert by any means and easily could have missed
something.

I should mention that the code is written in C, not C++, and that
is not something I am at liberty to change.