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From: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
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Subject: Re: A/UX cc compiler
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Date: 15 Nov 90 22:25:25 GMT
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jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
>>The default cc is an OK compiler, but nothing special. Its biggest
>>deficiency is that it has fixed-size tables for most everything
>>(something it shares with the standard cpp, as, and ld, although
>>with ld you seldom if every notice it). This means that large
>>systems (gcc, X11, etc) fail with the default cc.

>Of course, 2.0 doesn't have this problem... it has a flag (-A #) which says
>to increase the symbol table size by a factor of #. (as, ld and f77 also
>have this)

>Now pre-2.0 did have fixed sized tables... and they were kinda meager too.

This is true; however, increasing table size causes things to SLOOOOW
down (especially with ld --- yack!). as and cc don't slow down all
that much, and if you need bigger tables, you need bigger tables :-).

As I said, cc is a pretty good compiler. Not great, but not bad either.

--John

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