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From: ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ANSI C compiler?
Summary: GCC
Keywords: 100% ANSI compilers
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.174902.27526@servalan.uucp>
Date: 6 Jan 91 17:49:02 GMT
References: <2073@incstar.uucp> <1991Jan5.232908.18246@bilver.uucp>
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
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>In article <2073@incstar.uucp> lhotka@incstar.uucp (Glamdring) writes:
>>I am in need of an ANSI standard C compiler for my Amiga.  Are both Lattice and
>>Aztec currently ANSI standard?  If not, which one is if either?  Thanks much!

If you need ANSI compliance *now*, and you have a bit of memory, say >2 meg,
you could use one of the GNU C ports to the amiga. This is a case of "compiler
in kit form", still. You need to track down other software to use with it,
like a linker.

I'm looking forward to SAS/C compliance to the ANSI standard. I've recently
changed my development procedure. I use SAS/C to debug my code, because
CPR is such an *excellent* debugger, but then I use GCC for the production
code. The optimizer for GCC produces code that works! In one case, GNU Chess,
I was able to produce a smaller executable with GCC than with SAS/C, even
though GCC was expanding simple functions inline instead of generating calls
to them. To be fair, the executable from SAS/C was done with the optimizer
off, but it generated an executable that didn't do anything if I turned it
on... For a chess program, speed is important.

ben@epmooch.UUCP