DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff) (12/10/90)
Hokay... time for religious war.
What do you all think is the best Public Domain/Shareware "C" Compiler and
system that is available? I'm talking about:
A) DICE (Fred Fish #359)
B) North C (Fred Fish #384)
C) PDC (Fred Fish #351)
Do any of these come with the 1.3 Includes? (I Know Dice doesn't)
I'm interested in the obvious; ease of code development/debugging, SPEED,
and code SIZE. Any and all comparisons/warnings/praises are welcome.
-OR-
Does EVERYBODY think I would be better off just getting a commercial versi
on and swallowing $350 or so?
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\---------------------------------------------------------------------/a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) (12/11/90)
In article <90343.182527DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff) writes: > What do you all think is the best Public Domain/Shareware "C" Compiler and >system that is available? I'm talking about: > > A) DICE (Fred Fish #359) > B) North C (Fred Fish #384) > C) PDC (Fred Fish #351) Just to muddy the waters, don't forget: D) Sozobon-C (sorry, don't know the Fish disk number) I use it for A68k development simply because it was the first freely-distributable C compiler that could handle my code. PDC has no doubt been improved to where it would do the job as well (I used it for a number of somewhat smaller programs before I switched), and NorthC and DICE are relative newcomers that I just haven't had the time to evaluate, although I'm sure they're worthy contenders. > Do any of these come with the 1.3 Includes? (I Know Dice doesn't) As far as I know, no. But the includes are readily available from Commodore. > Does EVERYBODY think I would be better off just getting a commercial >version and swallowing $350 or so? If I were writing Amiga software commercially (as I would love to do far better than writing for MS-DOG) I'd probably rush right out and buy SAS (formerly Lattice) C. But the freely-distributable stuff is quite usable, even if it lacks fancy debuggers and might not optimize code so tightly. In fact, once I get a new version of A68k working with Sozobon-C (86K executable file) I then give it to someone else to compile with Lattice or Manx to get the executable file down to 50K. But try the freebies - they're definitely worth looking into. Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP "I'm cursed with hair from HELL!" -- Night Court
erickson@alee.UUCP (Lee Erickson) (12/21/90)
Steve Warren says: >What about gcc? > >Didn't I here someone one the net say they had it going? > >It doesn't seem too strange, considering that gnuemacs is in >rev 0.8 on the Amiga. OK, I've been with out a USENET feed for a while, and now only have a limited feed (to get better, soon, I believe). How/where do I get gnuemacs for my Amiga? GNU C would be nice, too. -- Lee Erickson uucp: ...{rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!alee!erickson Working for but NOT ...!psuvax1!burdvax!gvlv2!lock60!alee!erickson representing internet: erickson%alee@canal.org InnovaSystems, Inc. usmail: 720 Raynham Rd., Collegeville PA 19426
swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) (12/22/90)
In article <4109@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes: >In article <90343.182527DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu >(Doug Bischoff) writes: > >> What do you all think is the best Public Domain/Shareware "C" >Compiler and >>system that is available? I'm talking about: >> A) DICE (Fred Fish #359) >> B) North C (Fred Fish #384) >> C) PDC (Fred Fish #351) >Just to muddy the waters, don't forget: > D) Sozobon-C (sorry, don't know the Fish disk number) What about gcc? Didn't I here someone one the net say they had it going? It doesn't seem too strange, considering that gnuemacs is in rev 0.8 on the Amiga. -- _. --Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own. Warren v\ *| ---------------------------------------------- V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.COM