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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: gcc compiler (GNU C++) Where do we get it ?
Message-ID: <1340150@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 90 00:40:08 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> We recently put C++ on our 800. In the '/usr/contrib/InterViews/TOP-README'
> file, there is an assumption that GNU stuff came on this distribution.....
> not so. Can anyone point us in the right direction?

Whoops - we (the HP C++ team) picked up the InterViews sources minus Gnu
C/C++ from Stanford (since Gcc had not been ported to the 800 yet). It
really makes no difference - the InterViews package compiles just fine with
HP C++ (we took care to ensure that).  We did not modify the readme files
that went along with the source, however, which is the reason for the
reference to Gcc.

P.S. Unlike most other machines, you really don't want to use Gcc in
preference to the system C compiler on the series 800 (yet): the system
compiler produces *much* better code (and we're going to try to keep it
that way :-).
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