'cc' versus 'gcc'

Johan Vromans jv at mh.nl
Mon Oct 9 04:50:14 AEST 1989


In article <FISCHER.89Oct7211012 at dirac.iesd.auc.dk> fischer at iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:
> >  gcc is not bug free, but it is about as clean as most commercial
> >compilers. It has *deferent* bugs, not *more* bugs.
> 
> Actually, it has *fewer* bugs that most commercial compilers.

One of the reasons there is misconception about the number of bugs in
the gcc compiler, is because there is a wide platform (the USENET)
they are discussed on. Each time I get a new cc from one of my
vendors, there are tens to houndreds of errors corrected. Almost all
of these errors I did not know that they existed at all.  With gcc we
*KNOW* about most of the errors. That's the difference.

Johan
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