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From: robtu@itx.isc.com (Rob Tulloh)
Subject: Re: DICE vs GCC
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Date:  5 Apr 91 20:03:04 GMT

Well, I have not used DICE, but I have used GCC, PDC, ZC, and NORTHC. Of all
these, there is no question, GCC is the answer. I have had little to
no trouble porting things like diff, flex, and bison to my machine. It
is a memory hog and not very fast, but it has a much better pre-processor
than early releases of ZC and NORTHC. I used PDC up until I got GCC from
ab20 and now I would not go back. The last time I checked, the GCC port
was using the PDC front end to the compiler (gcc == ccx). Comments in
the readme files indicated that the real gcc front-end program was forthcoming.

With regard to gdb, I would love to see this program ported. I am real
tired of coding printf's into my source just to see what a variable is
being set to. If anyone has seen this running under 1.3, I would love
to hear about it.

With regard to large projects, If I can build packages like flex, bison,
and diff (which uses regex.c - very large C file) without incident - I
would say it is pretty clean. It has not yet failed me - wish I could
say the same about about some of the ARP calls (ASyncRun() argh!).

With regard to speed, anyone know why it is that blink takes so long
when you link to arp.lib? I have generated multiple libraries to link
to and adding this one always slows the link down on the order of minutes.

Rob Tulloh
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