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From: Axel Thimm <axl AT zedat DOT fu-berlin DOT de>
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 01:50:04 +0100
Subject: Re: Pros and cons of djgpp vs. emx
Reply-To: axl AT zedat DOT fu-berlin DOT de

On 16 Nov 95 Balea Mihai Sorin <sorinb AT sky DOT dsp DOT pub DOT ro> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 14, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I have worked a bit with djgpp, but I know that there is another dos gcc
> > out there, named emx/gcc I believe. It is the C compiler used to compile
> > emtex, the tex version for dos. Is anyone willing to compare those two
> > against each other?
> > A pro for emx might be that it supports gcc 2.7.0 while djgpp is still
> > at 2.6.3, but that is already all I know about the two compilers.
> > 
> 
> Actually, they are two different ports of the same compiler, so the quality
> of the code is identical.
> 
> Pro emx : o Supports OS/2, Windows 3.*, Windows 95, Windows NT ( with RSX
>             extender )
>           o Supports fork, signals, pipes (???) but only for OS/2 ( and
>             W95,W-NT ? - dunno )
>           o Faster I/O routines ( especially disk )
> 
> Pro djgpp : o Much larger lib support
>             o Much better docs and tech support ( this list :-)
>             o Support for DPMI ( which emx hasn't, you'll need RSX for that)
> 
> Note : I'm comparing emx 0.9a and djgpp 1.12m4. Things are different with
>        djgpp v2.
> 
> My choice : djgpp for everything but command line, disk oriented programs ( and
>             of course, OS/2 and Windows code - but I don't do such horrors ).
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Sorin Balea -- sorinb AT sky DOT dsp DOT pub DOT ro
> 
Helps a lot, thanks!
Axel
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Axel Thimm <axl AT zedat DOT fu-berlin DOT de>
Freie Universitaet Berlin
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