Re: CodeWarrior & Xcode Marketshare

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From: MW Ron
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:17

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In article <haberg-0905052034270001@c83-250-195-154.bredband.comhem.se>, Hans
Aberg says...

>
>Metrowerks is (I think) a Motorola company, and I figure their CodeWarrior
>compilers were a part in the effort of promoting Motorola CPU's. On the
>Mac, this is G4 and earlier. The G5 I think is developed by Apple and IBM,
>so there is no Motorola interest in promoting that anymore. 

Metrowerks is a Freescale company,  and Freescale still provides chips for Apple
computers,  the laptops and MiniMacs.

>In addtion,
>with Mac OS X using GCC, which is one of the most compliant C++ compilers
>around, it will become tough for Metrowerks to upper that, especially as
>the Mac OS X developer tools are for free.

I have seen reports of independent tests that showed CodeWarrior with a 99+
compliance equal to Intel and EDG based compilers.  GCC is good but not as good.

Ron

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