Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/14/07:35:05
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:10:57 GMT, Alan Wilson <awilson AT wilshire DOT com> wrote:
>I was wondering what everyone use DJGPP for? A lot of people use compilers
>like Borland C++, Etc.. Why do you use DJGPP?
>
>Do you use it because it's easy to use.
Once it is installed... yes.
>Do you use it to write games?
I'd like to but i don't have the time..
>Do you use it to help you learn C or C++?
It's amazing. All that warnings when you switch on -Wall -W
It even checks format-strings!
It checks for string-consts vs. non const pointers.
It finds if (a=x) bugs !!!
And with RHIDE there's no need to mess around with make-files
yes, I learned C very painless thanks to DJGPP
>Or do you just use it because its FREE???
I would never have bought a C compiler because I liked Borland-Pascal that
much. But DJGPP gives me that 'just code it'-feeling combined with the power
of GNU-C.
There are two things I really dont like:
You write some modules with some kind of hiarchie and the header-files
reflect what is imported elsewhere. Ok.... and when you link that everything
is thrown into one bucket and you get these 'defined somewhere else'
messages.
Second this terrible strings-stuff... I really can't cope with all that
strdup, strcpy, ... where everything is so easy in Borland-Pascal.
But these are not DJGPP specific problems.
bye,
Peter Steiner
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