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From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: DICE vs GCC
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.034920.16298@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 4 Apr 91 03:49:20 GMT
References: <9104021420.AA10848@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <9104021420.AA10848@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> tjhayko@THUNDER.LAKEHEADU.CA writes:
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>This may not be the correct newsgroups to post  this,  so  if  it
>isn't, please just ignore it.
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>What are the merits of Matt Dillon's DICE over the  current  ver-
>sion  of  GNU  C  for AmigaDOS?  I know about the memory require-
>ments, but I want to know from a programmers point of view  which
>is  better.  The majority of my experience with C programming has
>been under Unix and VMS.  I've used GNU C  running  on  our  Suns
>here,  and it seems quite good.  How does the Amiga port compare?
>How does DICE compare to GNU C on (Suns or Amigas) ?   Also,  are
>there  any plans to port gdb to the Amiga?  I'm used to using dbx
>or gdb under Unix, and I miss that sort of thing  when  I'm  pro-
>gramming  on  my  Amiga.   I'd  really  prefer to go the route of
>shareware or something like GNU C,  but  if  SAS/C  is  really  a
>better choice, I'll go with it.  Just let me know you opinions on
>each option.  Sorry if this seems a little jumbled, the  cat  de-
>cided that last night was not the time for me to sleep. Thanks in
>advance.
>

Well it depends on what you are doing.  I am writing a large
program (>20,000 lines code) and tried using several compilers,
GCC, DICE and SAS C.  Well DICE is probably a lot better now,
but the early version I had (non-registered) was unusable
(sorry Matt :-) ), as it would fall to pieces on syntax
errors etc., and GCC was too buggy for any large project.

SAS C is very good, quite stable (Only discovered 2 major 
bugs) and generates good code.  If you are doing a BIG project
I'd go with SAS C, but DICE would be good for anything smaller
and GCC if you're really desperate (unless something
dramatic has happenned, like it is now able to produce
Amiga object files etc.).

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Colin Adams                                  
Computer Science Department                     James Cook University 
Internet : cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au               North Queensland
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