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To: Aldo Mazzilli <aldo DOT mazzilli AT inria DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: egcs vs gcc 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:01:28 CDT."
             <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 93 DOT 990423085734 DOT 23125J-100000 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu> 
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:25:45 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>

Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU> writes:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Aldo Mazzilli wrote:
> > 
> > And, I have to choose the compiler between EGCS and GCC.
> > I just want your advice concerning the best choose I can do between EGCS
> > and GCC.
> > 
> > My choose must depend on :
> > - reexamination degree of the compiler
> > - security degree of the compiler
> > - efficiency of produced code
> > - size of produced code
> 
> Cygwin code is always going to be a bit less efficient that Mingw code
> simply because of the emulation layer. Whether it's acceptable or not
> depends on what your application does! For floating point intensive code,
> Cygwin's math library provided by newlib is not that great, and you'll
> get faster results (and fewer bugs) with MS runtime.

Ahem, I should really answer the question asked instead of making one up ;-) 
My apologies.

FSF GCC aka GCC2 is dead, and the development on it has ceased. If you wait 
a few days, you will see the announcement that EGCS is going to become the 
next generation of FSF GCC -- GCC3. 

*Do not* pick FSF GCC 2.8.x no matter what others may tell you. This is
especially true on x86-win32 targets.

Regards,
Mumit


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