The Alpha® edition of the Microsoft® Visual C++™ 6.0 Development System brings the power of object-oriented programming to Microsoft Windows NT™ version 4.00 and later, on the Alpha platform. The Alpha edition of Microsoft Visual C++ contains all the features of the development environment, as well as language and class-library support, found in the x86 edition of Visual C++.
With well engineered source code, you’ll be able to port most project and source files between the x86 and Alpha platforms with ease. Because the C/C++ language provides low-level access to the hardware, however, there are some ways in which the development environments differ (mostly in debugging), and some special areas of concern in portability and application performance. These issues are discussed in this book.