| From: | Matthew Allatt |
| Date: | 24 May 2001 at 18:18:15 |
| Subject: | Re: GCC |
Hello David
On 24-May-01, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just downloaded GCC v2.7.0 from aminet, as i am looking to get back into
> C after a 5 year break.
I used GCC on my Amiga for my Uni project because the orginal source code I
hacked about was for GCC (Unix).
>
> Anywayz i ran the installer and went OK, not yet installed the commodore
> header files from my developer CD.
>
> I did the hello world example and saved it, tried to compile with:
>
> gcc -o hello hello.c
>
> The message i got was "Bus error", tried again and got a requester about
> ssystem().
>
> Any ideas ?
Don't use GCC - I had all kinds of hard disk crashes throughout the project
- I was using FFS at the time, which meant I had to wait for the Hard drive
to validate itself. I've now removed GCC because I never got on with it.
The more recent versions may actually be a lot better - I was using the
latest version as of about 3 years ago, I'd expect it's been improved since
then, but I would *never* go back to using it.
>
> Is there another "free" alternative to GCC available ?
>
Get DICE from dev/c on Aminet - I prefer it to Storm C - it is a lot less
picky in terms of error messages than Storm, and GCC, and the error
messages you do get are a lot more helpful than GCC.
Regards
Matthew.
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