Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!egisin
From: egisin@mks.UUCP (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Comment on PD/Shareware C compiler
Summary: must be a bad port of GCC
Message-ID: <885@mks.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 22:17:21 GMT
References: <1048@orbit.UUCP> <1471@atari.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 13

In article <1471@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
> I got GCC version 1.23 for the ST from Simon Poole (indirectly), and I
> found that its 68000 code generation is TERRIBLE.  It is beaten by ALL
> the other Atari C compilers I could find (Dhrystone 2.1), by a factor of
> two or more in some cases.  This includes using -O, but no other

Someone must have botched the port of GCC.
I've been using versions of gcc as a cross-compiler for the ST
since version 1.23.  It always had Dhrystone 2's of 1200+,
better than everything except Turbo C. I use the Sun configuration,
compile with -m68000 -mshort -fsoftfloat(?),
and Henry Spencer's string functions.
I download the objects at 1200 baud; its worth the trouble.