From: tb200 AT aol DOT com (TB200)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp vs. visual C/C++
Date: 25 Feb 1997 05:27:13 GMT
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I should point out that djgpp is much more reliable than the Symantec C++
compiler (v7.20) for dos programs at least. I had the misfortune to use it
for a dos project once, and I ran into some pretty serious bugs, like
malloc not working right. Also, run-time arrays never worked, and it
needed so many options to compile correctly that running the compiler
without the windows shell was impossible. I suspect that the same is true
for most windows compilers. On the other hand, SC worked fine for windows.
If you are doing windows programming, then you can't use djgpp anyway (at
least not yet). But if you are programming for dos, then definately use
djgpp. In all the time I have use DJGPP, I have only found one bug in it,
a problem with the assembler. (It compiled call es:eax as call eax)