Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: 'cc' versus 'gcc' Message-ID: Date: 7 Oct 89 20:03:04 GMT References: <506@shuldig.Huji.Ac.IL> <7158@asterix.UUCP> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 23 In-reply-to: jimp@asterix.UUCP's message of 27 Sep 89 18:13:38 GMT In article <7158@asterix.UUCP> jimp@asterix.UUCP (Jim Patterson) writes: >We tried out gcc on our system (Sun 3's), and never encountered what >could be called a 'bug'. >.. >The differences that we encountered (there are likely others) are: >... AND of course: - better code generated (program runs faster). - you don't have to write "register int x' all over the place. GCC does register allocation. - ANSI compliance. You can do 'void f(int x){..}'. - you have the source. GCC is really a very good product. As is all GNUware. /Lars -- Copyright 1989 Lars Fischer; you can redistribute only if your recipients can. Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk, {...}!mcvax!iesd!fischer Department of Computer Science, University of Aalborg, DENMARK. "That makes 100 errors; please try again" --TeX