From: adalee AT sendit DOT sendit DOT nodak DOT edu (Adam W Lee) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer Subject: Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC Here's a good rating comparision Followup-To: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer Date: 8 Sep 1997 20:34:04 GMT Organization: SENDIT - North Dakota's Educational Network Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5v1nfs$g9b$2@news.sendit.nodak.edu> References: <3412BD25 DOT 1F30 AT mho DOT net> <5uuqci$15l AT sjx-ixn5 DOT ix DOT netcom DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sendit-2.sendit.nodak.edu To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk : 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. Also, you may be having problems switching from Intel to AT&T, but that doesn't make it a problem. Some people can't grasp C++ but that doesn't make a compiler's support of it a problem. : Tony : ------------------ : Tony Tribelli : adtribelli AT acm DOT org -- +--- -- -- - - | [pHiXx/VorteX] : phixx AT usa DOT net : .