From: "Ian Miller" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: DJGPP and Borland's compiler generated code size Lines: 28 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:58:45 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.159.59.123 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT plus DOT net DOT uk X-Trace: stones 974030297 212.159.59.123 (Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:58:17 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:58:17 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Julian Hsiao" wrote in message news:madoka-6C398A DOT 16411011112000 AT news DOT supernews DOT com... > Hi, > > I'm currently taking a programming class and being short on budget, uses > DJGPP and Borland's free compiler... The > reason I use both compilers is because I try to avoid using certain > constructs that only GCC or Borland provides (well, I guess the only way > to completely avoid that is to code while reading the C++ specs paper, > but I'll pass on that...). I do it by consulting my copy of Bjarne Stroustrup's book "The C++ Programming Langauge" rather than rely on on-line help systems which never draw the distinction between standard and extended features. Once one is reasonably familiar with the language this is not particularly arduous. Compiling a piece of code on several different compilers is a marvelous stress test, however. In my experience it almost always turns up a subtle bug or two. Ian