From: p DOT steiner AT t-online DOT de (Peter Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: What do you use DJGPP for??? Date: 11 Jul 1997 19:08:14 GMT Organization: Telekom Online Internet Gateway Lines: 43 Message-ID: <5q60au$sbk$3@news01.btx.dtag.de> References: <2 DOT 2 DOT 32 DOT 19970709181057 DOT 006f25d8 AT gate> Reply-To: p DOT steiner AT t-online DOT de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:10:57 GMT, Alan Wilson wrote: >I was wondering what everyone use DJGPP for? A lot of people use compilers >like Borland C++, Etc.. Why do you use DJGPP? > >Do you use it because it's easy to use. Once it is installed... yes. >Do you use it to write games? I'd like to but i don't have the time.. >Do you use it to help you learn C or C++? It's amazing. All that warnings when you switch on -Wall -W It even checks format-strings! It checks for string-consts vs. non const pointers. It finds if (a=x) bugs !!! And with RHIDE there's no need to mess around with make-files yes, I learned C very painless thanks to DJGPP >Or do you just use it because its FREE??? I would never have bought a C compiler because I liked Borland-Pascal that much. But DJGPP gives me that 'just code it'-feeling combined with the power of GNU-C. There are two things I really dont like: You write some modules with some kind of hiarchie and the header-files reflect what is imported elsewhere. Ok.... and when you link that everything is thrown into one bucket and you get these 'defined somewhere else' messages. Second this terrible strings-stuff... I really can't cope with all that strdup, strcpy, ... where everything is so easy in Borland-Pascal. But these are not DJGPP specific problems. bye, Peter Steiner -- _ x ___ / \_/_\_ /,--' p DOT steiner AT t-online DOT de (Peter Steiner) \/>'~~~~// \_____/ signature V0.2 alpha