🚀 go-pugleaf

I know that gnu.gcc.announce is a monitored News Group, but I thought I would
watch how you handled this to give us an indication of your confidence level
in your own product . . .

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Hi Everyone,

We are having an ongoing debate here at Odetics about "C" compilers.  We need
one that will run on all three of our Sun architectures (Sun3, Sparc and
386i) and will cross compile on each of those machine as a MINIMUM to at
least 68000 code, but preferably to any of the other machines as well as
to several of the 680x0 processors.  An ANSI compiler is STRONGLY preferred
for the prototyping (if nothing else).  At any rate two compilers currently
have some backing within the company; GNU gcc and the "new unbundled,
(as yet) undelivered Sun ANSI compiler".

The Sun compiler has the obvious advantage of leaving us still in "single
vendor mode" and the obvious disadvantage of getting a compiler with a
small and new customer base plus the cost.  (If anyone out there is a Beta
site or something I would be interested in hearing your experiences!)

The GNU compiler is just unknown to us.  We pulled it in from uunet and
it seemed to come up OK, but the code it generated on one program we
tried it with (at first blush) seemed BIGGER than Sun's standard compiler
for the Sun3.  This bothers us a LOT because we  know how sloppy the code
is on Sun3 (they actually generate a MOVEM instruction with no registers
specified at each routine called!!!!)

I would like to hear experiences from the users out there who use
this product.  Is it any good?  How tight is the code?  When problems
develope is there anyone interested in looking into them and/or fixing
them or would we basically be "on our own".  I basically want to hear
the best of the worst about gcc from you all.  If there is enough interest
I will sumarize and repost.

Frank Merrow
frank@odetics.com