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From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
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Subject: Re: gcc vs. cc
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Date: 14 Feb 91 14:32:38 GMT
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In article <16392@milton.u.washington.edu>, mattf@cac.washington.edu
(Matthew Freedman) writes:

> Does anybody have any opinions about whether or not it is worthwhile to
> use gcc instead of the standard Ultrix 4.0 cc compiler?

No real opinion, but if you do want to use gcc, you should probably consider
the OSF-enhanced version.  It has debugger support --- the "-g" option works.

It's available from gatekeeper.dec.com (and probably several other archives).
Look in pub/GNU/osf.

					Frank