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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Porting GCC to Atari ST
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Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 11:14:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 11:14:35 1987
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Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science
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Keywords: C GCC Gnu FSF

I am aware of *no* correct usage for the word "compiler" as meaning "a
program which translates source code into a runnable image", except in
situations where linking is not done. A compiler is always part of a
programming environment, not the whole thing. Compilers produce linkable
object code which cannot be run without linking. This is not the technical
use of the term, but the common use (except in the phrase "the compilers of
this cookbook have taken great pains not to include recipes requiring animal
or vegetable matter"). Sorry, I just wanted to clear that up.

Now, as someone who has just purchased Mark Williams C (a steal at US$119
from Microtyme), can anybody tell me what I would gain by running GCC on my
ST? I know that GCC generates outstanding object code, but I have yet to
write a compute-bound program for my machine (actually I have written one or
two, but nothing short of a floating-point coprocessor could speed them up
substantially). What are the other advantages?

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