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Subject:	Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC Here's a good rating comparision
Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:05:21 -0400
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In group rec.games.programmer, Adam W Lee says...
> : 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.

That's not much of an argument : you guys are talking about a C++ 
compiler!  _So_ _what_ if the back end is used for other 
languages?  

BTW, VC++'s back end is used for Fortran, Visual Basic 5.0, and 
an upcomming Java compiler.  Visual C++ is also available to 
produce Motorola and PowerPC code, MIPS, all Windows CE platforms 
(which use none of these processors). It runs nativly on Dec 
Alpha, also.

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