Bill_Moore@mindlink.UUCP (Bill Moore) (04/11/91)
I am new to the net and notice a fair amount of discussion about gcc.
I am a recreational c programmer, and use mostly mark williams c. Things I
like about it are the integrated cli, a fairly fast emacs editor, and
relatively small code. It isn't ansi, its not public domain, and there isn't
likely to ever be an mwc c++. It also has a pretty good source level debugger.
It assembly language format is weird tho.
I would be interested in hearing from users of gcc about what they like
and what they don't. If people think this is appropriate for the whole
net, fine; if not e-mail me and I will post a summary.
Thanks!!
...Billytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji) (04/15/91)
GNU C is the best because it can become better than the best. If your MWC is better, then I would just fix the source code of gcc so that gcc could produce better code sequence as to that particular case that mwc pointed at. People say gcc is inevitably poor because it does not look after 68000 adequately because 68000 is now inconsequential. I don't think so. m68k specific code can be added as much as one would feel necessary: theres no limit to it. And I must mention the gnu assembler is very good in terms of determining the shortest branch code etc.