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From: dix@clinet.fi (Risto Kaivola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Query for the Net
Summary: There is an Amiga port of GCC
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.154623.2287@clinet.fi>
Date: 12 Nov 90 15:46:23 GMT
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When it comes to C-compilers, there is no reason to forget that
GCC, Amiga version 1.37.1, is out. This package is named 'AGCC',
and one of the ftp-sites which has it available is

abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov

There are probably other sites, but this is the only one I
remember. Try /incoming/amiga and some file or files that
start with agcc, I don't remember precisely.

The only real drawback of this compiler is that to make anything
reasonable with it, you will need at least 1.5 MBytes of
memory and a hard disk.

I have succesfully compiled small programs on my one-megabyte
Amiga 500. It is equipped with two disk drives, so hard disk
is not a necessity, but the compilation needed a setup which
doesn't suit to any 'real use'. No text editors could be
run at the same time, the disk containing the executables
needed for AGCC was filled up 100%, no shell could be used, etc.

There may be some compatibility problems with SAS (former
Lattice) C, but there is no way Lattice could match the
price/performance ratio offered by GCC. GCC comes free.

Risto
P.S. Thanks for those who did the port!
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