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Date:      Tue, 04 Jan 2000 11:41:38 -0800
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler 
Message-ID:  <87334.947014898@monkeys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 04 Jan 2000 11:06:17 -0800. <200001041906.LAA18457@screech.weirdnoise.com> 

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In message <200001041906.LAA18457@screech.weirdnoise.com>, 
Ed Hall <edhall@screech.weirdnoise.com> wrote:

>: I have just upgraded my system to -current w/egcs 2.95.2 and I have
>: several problems with it, especially when using optimizations (-O2 and
>: such)
>
>Have you reported those problems to <bug-gcc@gnu.org>?  Bugs aren't
>very likely to get fixed if no one reports them.
>
>As for free alternatives--I don't think there are any, especially if
>you are looking for something "better" than the current GCC.  The
>various free C compilers I've seen over the years have been little
>better than toys.

That is *definitely* not true in the case of lcc.

lcc is a very well-thought-out compiler.

The good news is that lcc is *very* ANSI/ISO conformant.

The bad news is that lcc is *very* ANSI/ISO conformant.

The implication of the latter statement is that lcc will probably choke
on many of the gcc-specific extensions in the various FreeBSD system
include files.


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