Looking for a compiler

[JKop]

I'm looking for a compiler, I'm running Windows XP. Can anyone suggest a
good one that can output assembly and that has all sorts of good
optimizations in it, all sorts of bells and whistles. I'm using Dev C++ at
the moment, but it has approximately 999999999999999 999999999999999 9 bugs in
it, so if anyone can suggest a decent environment too, I'll be appreciative.
-JKop

[PCportinc]

>I'm using Dev C++ at

the moment, but it has approximately 999999999999999 999999999999999 9 bugs in
it, so if anyone can suggest a decent environment too,

I have used all the available free C++ compilers and they all have 99x99 bugs
in them.
As does C++ itself.
a decent environment would be a mental ward after taking Cobol, Java, C++.

[fabio de francesco]

JKop <NU**@NULL.NULL > wrote in message news:<Su******* **********@news .indigo.ie>...

What exactly are the gcc/g++ compilers, and why are they so famous?!

They are professional front-end for (included) professional open
source compilers, assembler and linker editor for
c,c++,java,ada9 5,fortran and objective c.
They are so famous because about the totality of the open source code
is compiled by this one, I suppose. You can find them in every
GNU/Linux distribution.
Look at http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/ where they can be downloaded
with the documentation too.
At http://www.gnu.org many development tools can be found, first of
all the gdb debugger.

Ciao,

Fabio

[Ioannis Vranos]

JKop wrote:

I'm looking for a compiler, I'm running Windows XP. Can anyone suggest a
good one that can output assembly and that has all sorts of good
optimizations in it, all sorts of bells and whistles. I'm using Dev C++ at
the moment, but it has approximately 999999999999999 999999999999999 9 bugs in
it, so if anyone can suggest a decent environment too, I'll be appreciative.

http://www.mingw.org there you can download the *compiler* (this is the
same compiler Dev-C++ uses) which is a GCC port for Windows, and at
http://www.context.cx/ you can download a nice *editor* to use as a
front-end to it (instead of using Notepad for example).


Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

[Ioannis Vranos]

fabio de francesco wrote:

JKop <NU**@NULL.NULL > wrote in message news:<Su******* **********@news .indigo.ie>...

What exactly are the gcc/g++ compilers, and why are they so famous?!

They are professional front-end for (included) professional open

GCC is not about front-ends but about compilers. GCC stands for GNU
Compiler Collection and it includes gcc (gnu c compiler), g++ (C++
compiler) and some others about other languages like Fortran.

There are GCC ports for many platforms including Windows.


Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

[Ioannis Vranos]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

JKop wrote:

I'm looking for a compiler, I'm running Windows XP. Can anyone suggest
a good one that can output assembly and that has all sorts of good
optimizations in it, all sorts of bells and whistles. I'm using Dev
C++ at the moment, but it has approximately
999999999999999 999999999999999 9 bugs in it, so if anyone can suggest a
decent environment too, I'll be appreciative.

http://www.mingw.org there you can download the *compiler* (this is the
same compiler Dev-C++ uses) which is a GCC port for Windows, and at
http://www.context.cx/ you can download a nice *editor* to use as a
front-end to it (instead of using Notepad for example).

To help you more at http://www.mingw.org the latest complete official
package to download is
MinGW bin MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe
It includes all languages together with Windows API support.


Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

[Scott Simontis]

pc*******@aol.c ombatSPAM (PCportinc) wrote in message news:<20******* *************** *****@mb-m06.aol.com>...

I'm using Dev C++ at
the moment, but it has approximately 999999999999999 999999999999999 9 bugs in
it, so if anyone can suggest a decent environment too,

I have used all the available free C++ compilers and they all have 99x99 bugs
in them.
As does C++ itself.
a decent environment would be a mental ward after taking Cobol, Java, C++.

I disagree. MinGW is a very nice compiler for Windows XP. I use it
along with the freely available IDE Dev-C++, which can be downloaded
from http://www.bloodshed.net. It is a very nice IDE with a few bugs,
but for the msot part, si the perfect editor for learning C++. Also,
if you want a command line solution, check out DJGPP, the Win32 port
of G++. That might be another solution as well. You might want to
download a basic Linux distro and then work with G++ and vi/emacs/your
favorite text editor. G++ has very few bugs, and is a GREAT C++
compiler. The Linux platform itself is also great, and besides the
lack of device drivers for some hardware, especially wireless cards,
it is a rock solid OS.

[Ioannis Vranos]

Scott Simontis wrote:

I disagree. MinGW is a very nice compiler for Windows XP. I use it
along with the freely available IDE Dev-C++, which can be downloaded
from http://www.bloodshed.net. It is a very nice IDE with a few bugs,
but for the msot part, si the perfect editor for learning C++. Also,
if you want a command line solution, check out DJGPP, the Win32 port
of G++.

Actually MINGW is the 32-bit Windows port of GCC.

DJGPP produces 32-bit DOS executables.


Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

[fabio de francesco]

Ioannis Vranos <iv*@guesswh.at .grad.com> wrote in message news:<cb******* ***@ulysses.noc .ntua.gr>...

fabio de francesco wrote:

JKop <NU**@NULL.NULL > wrote in message news:<Su******* **********@news .indigo.ie>...

What exactly are the gcc/g++ compilers, and why are they so famous?!

They are professional front-end for (included) professional open

GCC is not about front-ends but about compilers. GCC stands for GNU
Compiler Collection and it includes gcc (gnu c compiler), g++ (C++
compiler) and some others about other languages like Fortran.

There are GCC ports for many platforms including Windows
Regards,

Ioannis Vranos

From http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/ the definition of what gcc is:

"GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front
ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as
libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...)."

And from http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/frontends.html:

"Currently the main GCC distribution contains front ends for C (gcc),
C++ (g++), Objective C, Fortran, Java (GCJ), and Ada (GNAT)."

The real C compiler is cc1, the C++ compiler is cc1plus and the Ada
compiler is gnat1. GCC contains all of them plus the C++ and the Ada
library.

Ciao,

Fabio De Francesco

GCC is really a front end to:

[fabio de francesco]

pc*******@aol.c ombatSPAM (PCportinc) wrote in message news:<20******* *************** *****@mb-m06.aol.com>...

I have used all the available free C++ compilers and they all have 99x99 >bugs

Do you mean that you can report that some closed source no-free C++
compiler have less bugs than (for example) g++ ?

I'm really interested to understand what you mean, other than what is
obvious for every big piece of code.

Regards,

Fabio De Francesco

[Peter van Merkerk]

JKop wrote:

Tabrez Iqbal posted:

What's wrong with gcc/g++ compilers? I am sure you know about these
compilers, don't you? You can download the Windows versions. -S
creates assembly and -O is for optimizations. You can also download
GNU MingW studio if you want an IDE.

Microsoft C++ Compiler 7.1 is free.

Borlnad C++ command line compilers (bcc ver 5.5) were also free

tabrez

What exactly are the gcc/g++ compilers, and why are they so famous?!

If you are using Dev C++ you already have used the GCC compiler. Though
probably the bugs you are experiencing are in the IDE not the compiler.
My experience is that the Dev C++ IDE is less than perfect.

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Peter van Merkerk
peter.van.merke rk(at)dse.nl