From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@...>
Date: 2003-11-22T23:22:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Microsoft's C/C++ compiler freely available

In article <20031116052729.GB1511@math.umd.edu>,
Daniel Carrera  <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> wrote:
> 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's true except for code quality. The proprietary compilers on Sun,
DEC^WCompaq^WHP and Intel (icc) are generally way better in code generation
than gcc. The main thing about gcc is that it is there and free.

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