From: sorinb AT sky DOT dsp DOT pub DOT ro (Balea Mihai Sorin)
Subject: Re: Pros and cons of djgpp vs. emx
To: axl AT zedat DOT fu-berlin DOT de
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 11:42:16 +0200 (EET)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

On Tue, Nov 14, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have worked a bit with djgpp, but I know that there is another dos gcc
> out there, named emx/gcc I believe. It is the C compiler used to compile
> emtex, the tex version for dos. Is anyone willing to compare those two
> against each other?
> A pro for emx might be that it supports gcc 2.7.0 while djgpp is still
> at 2.6.3, but that is already all I know about the two compilers.
> 

Actually, they are two different ports of the same compiler, so the quality
of the code is identical.

Pro emx : o Supports OS/2, Windows 3.*, Windows 95, Windows NT ( with RSX
            extender )
          o Supports fork, signals, pipes (???) but only for OS/2 ( and
            W95,W-NT ? - dunno )
          o Faster I/O routines ( especially disk )

Pro djgpp : o Much larger lib support
            o Much better docs and tech support ( this list :-)
            o Support for DPMI ( which emx hasn't, you'll need RSX for that)

Note : I'm comparing emx 0.9a and djgpp 1.12m4. Things are different with
       djgpp v2.

My choice : djgpp for everything but command line, disk oriented programs ( and
            of course, OS/2 and Windows code - but I don't do such horrors ).

Hope this helps

Sorin Balea -- sorinb AT sky DOT dsp DOT pub DOT ro