Examining Win32 C++ Compilers

By Ron van der Wal

Dr. Dobb's Journal March 1997

Table 6: Constrained optimization results. (*Borland results are reported as Borland/Intel back end. **Code generated by the Intel backend crashed shortly after program start. ***Code generated by the Microsoft compiler 4.1 contained errors in a switch statement embedded in a while loop. Consequently, the program entered an endless loop after finding the first solution. Version 4.2 did not have this problem; it completed the test in 1:13. Its executable size was 175,616 bytes.)

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