Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:02:49 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GCC and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0104200959190.26295-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010420005012.A95149@cec.wustl.edu>
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > Two questions, the second one a little off-topic, but bear with me: > > 1) If GCC didn't exist, what compiler would FreeBSD contain? 'Another free C compiler' > 2) Since all my programming has been on UNIX systems with GCC, I have no > idea how GCC compares to other compilers. Is it a good one, a mediocre > one, or just the only thing we've got? Fair to middling. Doesn't tend to compare favourably with commercial products. A lot of open-source stuff (well, a significant chuck) uses GCC 'extensions' which will break under ANSI/ISO-conformant compilers. It's close to ubiquitous, and tends to get retargetted for pretty much any platform. However, the quality of code generation depends a great deal on how radical that target platform is. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk "My army boots contain everything not in them." - Russell's pair o' Docs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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