Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: GCC vs Clang Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:11:53 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <4p0oqbh4ail533kg8acdg2u1p3n2d47n6f@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="945944de09706c9b4e29b53c9d2efdc2"; logging-data="23275"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX190EsQR2baj3EkV9hFbC75a" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EGF9YVlMb3+rSqfs0XUVo+ZkGcE= sha1:SfT5rC21/PDOEKrYyeysMvLIzgA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:92142 BartC writes: > On 11/08/2016 17:36, Keith Thompson wrote: >> BartC writes: >>> On 11/08/2016 10:35, BartC wrote: >>>> On 11/08/2016 05:53, Geoff wrote: >>>>> Your arguments are specious. You are deliberately whining. >>> >>>> Nevertheless, I've just downloaded the version on the page above. >>> >>>> When it was finished, I found Clang now no longer worked at all! >>> >>> I managed to re-download from the other link called "Clang for Windows". >>> Now that works again (with gcc/tdm). I just wasted 130MB of downloads >>> for nothing. >>> >>> It does seem strange however that if Clang is just a pure C compiler as >>> Keith is fond of constantly pointing out, that there should such a >>> dramatic difference between a version that works with VS, and a version >>> that works with ... whatever it is that gcc/tdm has got. >> >> Perhaps the "Clang for Windows" *.exe file you downloaded installs more >> than just the Clang compiler. Perhaps installing Clang on Windows isn't >> as bad as your incessant whining implies. > > I've seen no evidence so far that clang works as a complete, standalone > and self-contained compiler suite under Windows. [snip] > The standard of even the basic documentation is abysmal. It should not > be necessary to guess these basic facts or find them out by accident. If > you think that's whining, then you're right! Why are you complaining about it **here**??? There may well be real problems (I'm simply not in a position to judge that), but we're not in a position to do anything to fix them. Have you tried the mailing lists I pointed you to? -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"