Re: C/C++ Compiler Recommendations

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From: Roland Yap
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 08:25

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graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill) writes:

>In article <1994Jan1.150429.25462@mel.dit.csiro.au>, car@conger.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Yap Kid Mun) writes:
>> First in response to Darryl's comments. Don't worry, I'm used to Unix and I've
>> used command line compilers before. What I'm really interested in is a good flat
>> memory model compiler for the PC (no IDE is alright).

>A cheap 32 bit PC compiler is djgpp - you can't get much cheaper
>than free. Archie should be able to point you in the right direction.

And for free its pretty good. Don't expect any IDE though or anything
fancy. The debugger is pretty primitive as well under DOS.
One should be a little careful with the optimizer as well ...
Using gcc under OS/2 is much nicer than under DOS and the same
applies to the debugger as well.

Roland

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