Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/26/15:04:53
Gregary J Boyles wrote:
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> On the whole I have found Borland C++ compilers to be among the most unreliable and unpredictable products on the market. Has any one else encountered the
> same problems and how does djgpp compare to them?
Borland is well-known for its bugginess. DJGPP, OTOH, has consistently
proven to be better and more reliable than any other compiler it
competes with. That's not to say that DJGPP is without bugs, but if you
should discover one, chances are it will be fixed and patches made
available less than a week after you report it. Usually it takes only
one or two days.
This is the real advantage of a user-supported freeware compiler;
because of the vast number of people who work and contribute, the
chances are good that anything you need that's not part of the standard
distributions has already been done or is being done by somebody else!
The biggest hurdle to making DJGPP a complete and total success is the
lack of direct Windows support. A package named RSXNTDJ does exist to
write Win32 native code for DJGPP, but I understand it to be somewhat
temperamental, and it doesn't have a visual design interface or
debugging tools. All of this will be fixed though, given time. :)
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