Re: GCC code quality, was Compiler Companies in Australia

david.boyle@gmail.com
5 Jul 2005 19:38:18 -0400

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From: david.boyle@gmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 5 Jul 2005 19:38:18 -0400
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References: 05-07-00805-07-017
Keywords: GCC
Posted-Date: 05 Jul 2005 19:38:18 EDT

Steven Bosscher wrote:
> I don't want to go into a GCC-is-bad vs. GCC-is-good flame fest here,
> but this message I reply to should either be backed up with numbers
> and data, or the entire message is the usual unfounded GCC bashing
> which does not belong in this forum.


This is true, but lets be consistent. The poster making the positive
remarks about GCC included no numbers or data, either. Why pull up the
second post but not the first?


I think a quick search through back issues of Dr Dobbs etc. would show
that on standards compliance, code optimisation and a number of other
metrics, GCC is not clearly superior to commercial offerings. A quick
search returned this (slightly dated) result for standards compliance:


http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~malloy/projects/ddj2/ddj2.html


Cheers,


Dave


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