glennd@athena.arc.nasa.gov (Glenn Deardorff) (03/16/91)
Would someone(s) care to offer their opinion of Sozobon C vs. GNU C? Do one or both have a source-level debugger which can be used with them? If so, are they included with the "package"? Thanks in advance. - Glenn
7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith) (03/18/91)
> Would someone(s) care to offer their opinion of Sozobon C vs. GNU C? Do > one or both have a source-level debugger which can be used with them? > If so, are they included with the "package"? *If* you've got the memory (>=2 megs) and a hard drive, GNU C is definitely the way to go. It produces better code, is ANSI compatible, and offers a choice of 16 bit (for speed) or 32 bit (for compatibility with Unix) integers. The libraries for GNU C are also somewhat more complete, and are generally more Unix-like. Neither compiler really offers a source-level debugger. szadb (the sozobon debugger) doesn't do source, although it does do symbol tables. gdb (the GNU debugger) *is* a source level debugger, but the current release for the ST is very seriously out of date, and lots of problems are reported; in my experience, it can't be relied on. -- Eric R. Smith email: Dept. of Mathematics eric.smith@uwo.ca University of Western Ontario 7103_2622@uwovax.bitnet