Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:2274 From: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz (Malcolm Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Moving from TC/BC to DJGPP?? Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 21:41:25 GMT Organization: Grafik Software Lines: 54 Message-ID: <4jk9ob$kaj@news.manawatu.gen.nz> References: <4jdtsq$as1 AT nyheter DOT chalmers DOT se> Reply-To: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz NNTP-Posting-Host: malcolm.manawatu.gen.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Arash wrote: >Hi' >I have been using Turbo C & Borland C++ on my computer for a while now, >and I'm just about to moving to DJGPP C-compiler, there are some question >I have about DJGPP, hope You can help me: >1. Is there any 64k-limits or any kind of other stupid limitations like >those in TC??? No, it is fully 32-bit like bcc32.exe. >2. How easy is to write low-level routines, is the inline assember like >the Intel standard at all?? (I didn't like the GCC-assembler on Linux :-( Unfortunately the inline assembler is the unix style with the arguments reversed (they'd argue that the Intel syntax is reversed though). However the inline syntax has many more powerful features, including typed arguments and details of clobbered registers to help the optimizer. >3. How FAST is the compiled code compared to Boralnd's (pmode) >optimized exe-files?? >(this is very important since I'm writing all time-critical routines in >C) As fast or much faster in many cases. Borland C lacks a few high level optimizations that gcc has. The pure 32-bit programming leads to faster code often (esp. when dealing with long arrays). >4. Is there any IDE?? There is a great developing ide (in beta) called RHIDE. This is modeled on the borland ide's and the only thing lacking is integrated debugging (a very hard thing to accomplish). >5. How much disk space it takes?? Check the FAQ as this is dependant on what you install. It is definitely less than BC4 (about 80+MB). You can look at this online at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp and then follow the links. >Thanks for any kind of help > Arash from Sweden Malcolm