From:	adalee AT sendit DOT sendit DOT nodak DOT edu (Adam W Lee)
Newsgroups:	comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer
Subject:	Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC Here's a good rating comparision
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Date:	8 Sep 1997 20:34:04 GMT
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: Possibly true with respect to the ancient 16-bit MSVC++ 1.0 that the
: original poster mentioned and your 486 system. But if we consider more
: recent 32-bit versions, 4.2 and 5.0, targetting Pentium systems, then gcc
: falls way behind. It also trails Watcom and Borland with Intel's backend
: optimizer.

PGCC isn't too bad, though.

: For DOS targets professionals used to choose Watcom, for Win32 targets they
: usually choose Visual C++.

I know a lot of people doing Win32 stuff in Watcom, though since you can
so easily compile for both.

: gcc is a little flaky with C++, exception handling is the most notorious
: example. Also AT&T assembly syntax is a problem, not an advantage.

OK, I'll give you that GCC's C++ isn't picture-perfect, but that's doding
the fact that it supports 5 times as many languages as MSVC.

Also, you may be having problems switching from Intel to AT&T, but that
doesn't make it a problem.  Some people can't grasp C++ but that doesn't
make a compiler's support of it a problem.

: Tony
: ------------------
: Tony Tribelli
: adtribelli AT acm DOT org

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