Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: 'cc' versus 'gcc' Message-ID: Date: 8 Oct 89 18:50:14 GMT References: <506@shuldig.Huji.Ac.IL> <7158@asterix.UUCP> <631@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: jv@mhres.mh.nl Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 20 In-reply-to: fischer@iesd.auc.dk's message of 7 Oct 89 20:10:12 GMT In article fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: > > gcc is not bug free, but it is about as clean as most commercial > >compilers. It has *deferent* bugs, not *more* bugs. > > Actually, it has *fewer* bugs that most commercial compilers. One of the reasons there is misconception about the number of bugs in the gcc compiler, is because there is a wide platform (the USENET) they are discussed on. Each time I get a new cc from one of my vendors, there are tens to houndreds of errors corrected. Almost all of these errors I did not know that they existed at all. With gcc we *KNOW* about most of the errors. That's the difference. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------