mattf@cac.washington.edu (Matthew Freedman) (02/14/91)
Does anybody have any opinions about whether or not it is worthwhile to use gcc instead of the standard Ultrix 4.0 cc compiler? In particular I am developing X/Motif applications, if that has any relevance. I hope this does not start a flame war. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = Matthew M. Freedman = = U. of Washington Information Systems mattf@cac.washington.edu = = 4545 15th Ave. NE; 4th Floor (206) 543-5593 = = Seattle, WA 98105 = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
sfreed@ariel.unm.edu (Steven Freed CIRT) (02/14/91)
In article <16392@milton.u.washington.edu>, mattf@cac.washington.edu (Matthew Freedman) writes: > Does anybody have any opinions about whether or not it is worthwhile to > use gcc instead of the standard Ultrix 4.0 cc compiler? In particular I have found through my experiences that gcc is more reliable, more bug free than DEC's cc. gcc is also (as far as I have been able to tell) ANSII C complient. -- Thanks, Steve. sfreed@ariel.unm.edu
grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (02/14/91)
I concurr; gcc is a little more reliable than the 4.0/4.1 mips CC. The running application is 10%->20% slower, comparing highest levels of optimization.
morten@modulex.dk (Morten Hastrup) (02/14/91)
mattf@cac.washington.edu (Matthew Freedman) writes: >Does anybody have any opinions about whether or not it is worthwhile to >use gcc instead of the standard Ultrix 4.0 cc compiler? In particular >I am developing X/Motif applications, if that has any relevance. First of all, you writes notthing about your system (VAX or RISC ?). On the destribution tape to X there is a configuration file to "Imake". In this file MIT writes that if you system is VAX: Better get gcc!! Besides this we have tryed out gcc on our RISC yesterday, and it worked very well - It detected on rather nasty error wich was by-passed by ULTRIX cc ?! Morten -------------------------------------------------- A/S MODULEX | Phone: +45 44 53 30 11 Lyskaer 15 | Fax: +45 44 53 30 74 DK-2730 Herlev | Denmark | Morten Hastrup | Email: morten@modulex.dk --------------------------------------------------
frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner) (02/14/91)
In article <16392@milton.u.washington.edu>, mattf@cac.washington.edu (Matthew Freedman) writes: > Does anybody have any opinions about whether or not it is worthwhile to > use gcc instead of the standard Ultrix 4.0 cc compiler? No real opinion, but if you do want to use gcc, you should probably consider the OSF-enhanced version. It has debugger support --- the "-g" option works. It's available from gatekeeper.dec.com (and probably several other archives). Look in pub/GNU/osf. Frank