IBM C/2
Description
C compiler, debugger and IDE for development of 16 bit OS/2 and DOS code, based on an older Microsoft C compiler.
IBM's C/2 contains many additional features while maintaining a compatibility with former IBM Personal Computer C Compiler Version 1.0.
The product was withdrawn from marketing at 31 december 1997 and replaced by IBM VisualAge C++ that was already available from 1995.
Features
- Runs on an generates code or IBM OS/2 and IBM DOS
- on 8086/88 machines only IBM DOS is supported
- C/2 and generated code can run concurrently within OS/2's multi-tasking environment
- Support for multiple selectable memory models
- Library routines that provide greater program function
- Aditional Compiler Switches
- enhanced MAKE utility (macros and inference rules)
- Interactive symbolic debug utility that allows isolation of program errors at the source code level (CodeView)
- Full-screen window interface
- Viewing source code or generated assembly code during execution
- Single stepping through source code or generated assembly code
- Symbolic references to local or global variables
- Setting breakpoints, including conditional breakpoints based on changing memory or expression evaluation
- Options to view or modify memory, display contents of registers, view application output screen
- Ability to display and assign new values to variables
- EXEMOD utility for modification of DOS *.EXE file header
- Math Co-Processor support / Provides Math Co-Processor emulation
For creating Presentation Manager applications IBM C/2 Version 1.10 and IBM OS/2 Toolkit Version 1.10 are required.
Documentation
- Volume 1
- C/2 Fundamentals
- C/2 Compile, Link and Run
- Volume 2
- C/2 Language Reference
Versions
- 1.00 - 1987-11-17 - PROGRAM: 6280187 / ITEM: 95X3072 / AAS: 5604-064
- 1.10 - 1988-11-01 - PROGRAM: 6280284 / ITEM: 6280284 / AAS: 5604-167
References
- IBM US Announcements
- 287-104 - 1987-04-02 - New Compilers and Assembler for IBM Personal Computers and IBM Operating System/2
- 287-500 - 1987-11-03 - Availability of New Compilers, Assembler...
- 288-265 - 1988-06-02 - IBM C/2 Version 1.10 for IBM Personal System/2 and IBM Personal Computers
- 288-624 - 1988-11-01 - IBM C/2 Version 1.00 Withdrawal from Marketing
- 288-626 - 1988-11-01 - IBM C/2 Version 1.10 Availability
- 997-288 - 1997-09-30 - Software Withdrawal: IBM C/2 Version 1.10 - Replacement Available
Author
Publications
- C. Petzold: IBM's OS/2 Programming Tools- PC Magazine 14 Jun 1988, 321pp
- C. Petzold: IBM's OS/2 1.1 Programming Tools- PC Magazine 30 May 1989, 371pp