From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 2: 4:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A2337B424 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 02:04:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:03:21 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14qWoT-00053K-00; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:02:49 +0100 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:02:49 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Andrew Hesford Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: GCC and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010420005012.A95149@cec.wustl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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