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- From: kanze@us-es.sel.de (James Kanze)
- Subject: Re: oopslooking for PerClass/SizeFreeList, oops
- In-Reply-To: erc@netcom.com's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:15:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <KANZE.93Jan25182658@slsvdnt.us-es.sel.de>
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- References: <1993Jan7.000515.11405@umr.edu> <1993Jan7.061533.8276@netcom.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:26:58
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- In article <1993Jan7.061533.8276@netcom.com> erc@netcom.com (Eric
- Smith) writes:
-
- |> Beware that Zortech has a reputation for releasing compilers with lots
- |> of bugs. I don't even want to upgrade my version 3.04 to 3.1 unless
- |> they first publish a bug list showing which bugs have been fixed. Some
- |> of the bugs in 3.04 were very bad, such that I often had to reboot in
- |> the middle of a compile. Also, there were some quirks in their
- |> interpretation of the C++ language, which wouldn't cause major problems
- |> for beginning C++ programmers, but which made it hard to port big
- |> programs to and from their compiler.
-
- |> If cost is a factor, you should consider the Gnu version. I think it
- |> is or soon will be available on NT, and is already available on OS/2
- |> and there is a DOS-extender version called DJGPP. But I'm not sure
- |> whether the Gnu version is better than Zortech 3.1, and I don't know
- |> anyone who uses both, so they are hard to compare.
-
- I use Zortech 3.?? under MS-DOS, and both GNU and Sun CC under Unix.
-
- The GNU has to take the record as the buggiest compiler I have ever
- used, and the earlier versions of the Zortech were pretty bad. (I
- might note that I was still learning C++ when I was using the early
- versions of the Zortech, so I probably wasn't pushing them as hard as
- I have the GNU.)
-
- More generally, though... C++ compilers in general seem very buggy.
- Worse, many of the bugs are precisely those which will cause the most
- problems for a beginner, and in every compiler, there seem to be some
- that even the most trivial testing would uncover. I know that C++ is
- harder to compile than C, but that's no excuse for not doing any
- quality control.
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