Re: [avr-gcc-list] avr-gcc credibility

[Joerg Wunsch]

"Sander Pool" <address@hidden> wrote:

> At the same time, a previous company of mine tried to build a
> product based on the c++ version of gcc before they were integrated
> and that didn't go well. At the time the compiler was not industrial
> strength. This is 8 years ago though.

8 years ago, the C++ frontend of gcc was indeed far from being
perfect, but even the C++ standard was quite a moving target by that
time.

Anyway, the C frontend of gcc has been among the better players in the
compiler world for more than a decade now.  Sure, there are always
hardware vendors (like Intel or Sun) that ship a compiler specific for
their platform that can create better code in some situations, but
among the universal compilers, gcc behaves pretty well.

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