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Re: GCC / EGCS

• Posted by Beaumont Furniss <bfurniss at IHUG.CO.NZ> Jun 08, 2000
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On 2000-06-08 EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU said:

     K&R <--> ansi
   The differences aren't that great , a little software and you can
 translate between the two , a lookup table ; for substitutions might
 suffice.
   You could put this Compiler in rom and run the whole thing from
  ram , on a palmtop this is probably what you do anyway.
   I use my ramdrive , as a temporary drive for pcc, this makes everything
 that much faster and saves on disk accesses . When the file I'm
 editing/compiling runs correctly ; I save that to the hdd.
  Pcc uses the classical approach to passing parameters to functions
 though , there are a few other peculiarities , unsigned long doesn't
 appear to be supported ; something else also.....

 EU>I also use pcc, I found it at simtel.net. It is not ansi, but
 EU>"Kernighan&Ritchie" compatible, like the cc compiler I used on Sun
 EU>stations. What is great is that it works even on PC-XT, no need to
 EU>have a >386 processor... I use it on my HP 200LX palmtop in the
 EU>train.
 EU>Riwal


 EU>> -----Original Message-----
 EU>> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 9:30 AM
 EU>> On 2000-06-07 EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU said:
 EU>>  EU>> Like mentioned earlier, GCC ( EGCS now ) is freely
 EU>>available for   EU>>many  operating systems including DOS. UNIX is
 EU>>criptic to the   EU>average windows user.
 EU>>  EU>> that is why windows is still king of the PC. Unix compilers
 EU>>*can*   EU>work under
 EU>>  EU>> linux because Linux is basically a free System V Unix
 EU>>  EU>implementation. >
 EU>>  EU>I actually want to take the time to learn C.  I had previously
 EU>>  EU>downloaded and installed EGCS and.....   And I couldn't the
 EU>>the   EU>$*#@ thing to work.  I fought with the piece of #*$% for
 EU>>a short   EU>time until I decided it just wasn't worth my time.
 EU>>  EU>I still have desire to learn C.  I have programs that I can
 EU>>get FREE   EU>source to but can't get in compiled format that I
 EU>>want to compile   EU>in C.  But if I have to FIGHT with the $*#@
 EU>>Compiler then the whole   EU>$*#@ lot can just kiss my @$$.
 EU>>  EU>Sincerely,
 EU>>  EU>Lucius L. Hilley III
 EU>>     The recipe that works for me , PCC , ansi C text ; h.schildt -
 EU>>   teach yourself C. also a few shell" "  calls from quickbasic ,
 EU>>or    equivalently system() calls from euphoria , or a batch file
 EU>>to interface    to something like the enhanced version of EDIT.
 EU>>     Pcc , like other C-compilers , isn't 100% ansi compatible ;
 EU>>going   through the ansi-C text however , I'm able to build up a
 EU>>number of  examples
 EU>>  that are and can be compiled from within Pcc. The variations
 EU>>aren't great  ,
 EU>>   yet these need to be documented. Things like gets() for
 EU>>instance ,  rather
 EU>>  than getche().
 EU>>   Once the documentation ,to go with Pcc, is complete and the
 EU>>examples are   completed then I can revise ; yet again what I
 EU>>learn't.    This certainly is an improvement on the course I
 EU>>attended at a local   Polytechnic , on C coding , a few years ago.
 EU>>    Eventually a larger compiler might be considered , presently
 EU>>though    there's enough to keep me busy.
 EU>>    If anyone wants the details , send me a message.
 EU>> Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Test Drive

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