Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 17:04:30 EDT
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT ctron DOT com>
To: pynq AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: GCC16: Any reason not to use it?

>My understanding is that GCC is merely an executive, that calls CPP,
>CC1, etc to do the actual work; i.e., GCC itself does not do any 32 bit
>operations.  This being so, is there any reason to use the 32 bit
>version of GCC, given that it will be slower than the 16 bit version.

Purity?  Pride?  Memory usage?  Maybe there isn't any good reason,
except that it gets built by gcc-2.2.2 so I ship it.  Gcc16 requires
some funky rewriting to get it to run under Turbo C.

>Mind you, I've never used GCC16 - never took the time to investigate it,
>but from what I hear, it sounds like it ought to be the default.

On my machine it *is* the default.

DJ
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