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From: dg@hpl.hp.com (Dipankar Gupta)
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Subject: Re: gcc compiler (GNU C++) Where do we get it ?
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Date: 10 Oct 90 12:10:09 GMT
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In article <1340150@hpclscu.HP.COM> shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
>
>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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>Shankar Unni                                   E-Mail: 
>Hewlett-Packard California Language Lab.     Internet: shankar@hpda.hp.com
>Phone : (408) 447-5797                           UUCP: ...!hplabs!hpda!shankar


What is *much* better code? Could you elaborate on why the code is much better?

//dg
Dipankar Gupta
dg@hplb.hpl.hp.com