From: sumatose AT NOSPAM DOT usa DOT net 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 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:05:21 -0400 Organization: VTL Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <3412BD25 DOT 1F30 AT mho DOT net> <5uuqci$15l AT sjx-ixn5 DOT ix DOT netcom DOT com> <5v1nfs$g9b$2 AT news DOT sendit DOT nodak DOT edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp088.216.msherb.videotron.net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk In group rec.games.programmer, Adam W Lee says... > : 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. That's not much of an argument : you guys are talking about a C++ compiler! _So_ _what_ if the back end is used for other languages? BTW, VC++'s back end is used for Fortran, Visual Basic 5.0, and an upcomming Java compiler. Visual C++ is also available to produce Motorola and PowerPC code, MIPS, all Windows CE platforms (which use none of these processors). It runs nativly on Dec Alpha, also.