From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP compatibility
Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:21:43 -0800
Organization:	Alcyone Systems
Lines:	22
Message-ID:	<3330AD47.888ADF@alcyone.com>
References:	<33307F9C DOT 3905 AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host:	newton.alcyone.com
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

Snoop Baron wrote:

> I'm a new DJGPP user and love it :)  I heard from a friend though that
> he had probles with it being compatible with AT&T C++ and ANSI C.  How
> compatible is DJGPP with the standards, I know it has extensions.

gcc (and thus DJGPP) is one of the most ANSI C/draft standard C++ compliant
compilers.  I heavily work with gcc (Linux and DJGPP), Microsoft Visual
C++, and MetroWerks CodeWarrior, and gcc is by far the better in conforming
of these three.

Did your friend give any examples of how gcc is noncompliant?  (Yes, there
are extensions, but many of them are easily avoided with the appropriate
compile flags.)

-- 
       Erik Max Francis, &tSftDotIotE / email:  max AT alcyone DOT com
                     Alcyone Systems /    web:  http://www.alcyone.com/max/
San Jose, California, United States /    icbm:  37 20 07 N  121 53 38 W
                                   \
              "I am become death, / destroyer of worlds."
                                 / J. Robert Oppenheimer (quoting legend)

- Raw text -