Re: Voting begins on removing OpenWatcom support
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Oct 26, 2012
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jimcbrown said...
Devs who have already voted on the dev list will not have their votes counted here.
What does that mean? Do I have to formally vote here because my vote on the dev list isn't counted?
In any case, I vote to drop Watcom support.
The main problems with Watcom are ...
- that it does not currently, or in the foreseeable future, support 64-bit CPU architectures, which are now commonplace. It does support 64-bit integers but not in native CPU form. They are emulated using 32-bit registers. It does not support 64-bit addressing.
- it does not support the newer versions of the C programming standard (see Version 2.0 and C99 Compliance)
- it is not being developed under a frequent release policy (thus updates and bug fixes are slow to arrive). The latest release is currently June 2010.
