| From: | Paul Hill |
| Date: | 30 May 2001 at 20:58:23 |
| Subject: | Re: GCC |
On 24-May-01 14:36:56, Shawn Holwegner wrote:
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>> any gr8 diff between gcc & vbcc ?
>Again, it really depends on your needs. GCC (at least the most recent) ports
>are based on GeekGadgets, which ads many calls which are common in UNIX
>based environments - so many that porting many applications is trivial
>(although making them work right is another story). GCC is standardized
>among many platforms, and generally something written for one platform that
>does not do any system-dependant calls will port easily to another platform
>with GCC.
A small point. With libnix GCC becomes a 'standard' Amiga C compiler.
It's able to produce Amiga libraries, devices etc. People often forget
this.
>vbcc is vbcc. It runs on Amiga only, and while it claims ANSI compliance, I
>don't know what version of the specs it follows, nor how 'portable' its
>syntax is... much like elder C compilers for MS-DOS and C64... sure,
>printf() is probably going to work, who knows about anything else.
Actually VBCC runs on multiple platforms. There's a PPC and a x86 code
generator at least.
It's a pretty good compiler. Not quiet up to the maturity of GCC but
close. GCC generally produces better code but the difference is minor.
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