'cc' versus 'gcc'

[Lars P. Fischer]

In article <7158 at asterix.UUCP> jimp at asterix.UUCP (Jim Patterson) writes:
>We tried out gcc on our system (Sun 3's), and never encountered what
>could be called a 'bug'.
>..
>The differences that we encountered (there are likely others) are:
>...

AND of course:
  - better code generated (program runs faster).
  - you don't have to write "register int x' all over the place. GCC
    does register allocation.
  - ANSI compliance. You can do 'void f(int x){..}'.
  - you have the source.

GCC is really a very good product. As is all GNUware.
  
/Lars
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