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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 07:46:07 +0300
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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AndrewJ wrote:
> > Don't forget that Watcom (and others) are single-platform compilers,
> > while GCC is highly portable.
> 
> Watcom
> host platforms -> DOS, Windows 3/9x/NT, QNX
> target platforms -> DOS16 (MZ, COM), DOS32 (various extender technologies),
> Win16/32/NT (executable, DLL, console, gui), Novell NLM, OS/2 (executable, DLL,
> presentation manager),  ADS (autocad development system),  QNX (16, 32),
> Penpoint (?).  There's also ELF, but it's really buggy and unusable.

Watcom is portable only across various ix86 platforms, while GCC is portable
across lots and lots different architectures. IMHO this is times bigger challenge -
to write good optimizing compiler which would do a good job for a broad range
of architectures.

Laurynas