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To: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: OK, make won, what is TAB??
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 18:14:42 -0700
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At 02:22  5/12/1998 -0700, Andrew Crabtree wrote:
>
>Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote in message ...
>"Daleg" <pekkaka AT dlc DOT fi> wrote:
>>PGCC is based in EGCS and that's the
>>experimental version of GCC.
>
>EGCS has official releases now as well as developer snapshots.  PGCC does as
>well.  The current pgcc 1.0.1 release has had no bug reports against the c
>compiler in 5 months.  I will be releasing a more experimental snapshot
>soon, that will be update regularly.
>
>>If you want to experiment a little, yes. It generated Pentium code, but
>>sometimes it generates wrong code.
>Same for regular gcc, although the likelihood with pentiumgcc is much
>greater :)

Actually, if you compare PGCC 1.0.1 and GCC 2.8.x, and PGCC really hasn't
had any bug reports in 5 months, I think PGCC probably wins. I've seen many
bug reports in the gnu.gcc.bug archives, and even experienced a few myself
on Linux (though not involving bad code being generated).

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com