From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC  Here's a good rating comparision
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:47:58 +0200
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Vic wrote:
[...]
> like? please tell me...I'm really curious. The compiler makers I know
> are Zortech, Borland, Microsoft ,FSF + maybe some others I don't know
> about (maybe I'm just ignorant, right?) but FSF (GCC) is the only one I
> know that makes a compiler for so many platforms (OH, OK, guys like IBM
> might make compilers for their own workstations or systems too)
> so please tell me, who is this company that makes a better compiler for
> so many "not so cheap PC based UNIXes" ?? I thought GCC was a standard
> in the unix world...
Sorry, but that is wrong. IBM makes a compiler for their RISC stations,
and after quite a long journey it might be called reliable. In fact, 
it is in optimizing as good as gcc (not a nother war, please, gcc's RISC
port is not that superior compared to other platforms), lacks some
of the gnu extensions, but is otherwise quite handy. SUN has (had?, not
sure) 
an own compiler for Solaris. 
It is true that gcc is available for more platforms than one might
expect, but
it is definitely not always the standard compiler. But might become, as 
commercial UNIX vendors now start to think that a C compiler is kind of
a luxury you have to buy. 

Still, I think that this thread leads to nothing, has only little
to do with DJGPP, and should be abandoned.


-- 
Ciao
Tom

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