From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T07:37:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Microsoft's C/C++ compiler freely available

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:00:52AM +0900, Chris Thomas wrote:

> >I don't use MinGW for the simple reason that I don't use Windows.  My
> >comments and my views come from gcc under Linux, Solaris and AIX.  
> >Under
> >these systems, gcc is fantastic.  Certainly better than the Sun 
> >compiler.
> >I find it easier to use, and much more dependable.
> 
> That may not be difficult. Historically, Unix vendor compilers have 
> tended to suck. IMHO, GCC is adequate. I wouldn't call it "fantastic." 
> They're working on it, however. Each release is an improvement.


Well, I love it.  It makes good code, fairly fast, not too large, it 
complies things I'd expect it would, and it has a significant collection of 
options.  It comes with a debugger.  I like the --Wall flag.  I think that 
it's conceptually better than the 'lint' program used by other unices (or is 
it just Sun?).  I don't like the idea of using different programs for 
compiling and syntax checking, since they might have slightly different 
ideas of what constitutes good code.

What problems have you had with it?

Cheers,
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