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Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX?

From August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX?
Date 2011-05-17 21:19 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2011-05-17 20:50, William Ahern wrote:
> Fritz Wuehler<fritz@spamexpire-201105.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>  wrote:
>> Is there a list of good C compilers for Linux and UNIX? I know about gcc and
>> Solaris Studio. Are there any more worth looking into? I'm not concerned
>> about portability. Looking for correctness, standards conformance, maturity,
>> and intelligent presentation of options (not kitchen sink like gcc etc).
>
> 	http://clang.llvm.org/
> 	http://www.comeaucomputing.com/
> 	http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/
> 	http://bellard.org/tcc/
>
> PCC claims full C99 conformance, perhaps excluding those parts which are the
> purview of the library. clang is now the default compiler on OS X.

Clang give excellent error messages. For example, try to compile this 
program with gcc and then with clang and see for yourself:

struct t {
	int n;
}

int main(void)
{
	return 0;
}


/August

-- 
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own 
skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids 
clever tricks like the plague. --Edsger Dijkstra

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What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201105.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-05-17 19:36 +0200
  Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-05-17 18:32 +0000
  Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2011-05-17 11:50 -0700
    Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 21:19 +0200
      Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Ralph Spitzner <rasp@spitzner.org> - 2011-05-18 11:35 +0200
    Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-05-18 13:19 +0200
  Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-05-17 21:35 +0200
    Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Mickey Mouse <fake@email.com> - 2011-05-17 13:43 -0700
      Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-05-17 22:59 +0200
        Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Mickey Mouse <fake@email.com> - 2011-05-17 22:34 -0700
    Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-17 20:51 +0000
      Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-05-17 23:04 +0200
        Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-17 21:14 +0000
          Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-17 14:55 -0700
      Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-05-19 00:13 +0200
        Re: What good C compilers are available for Linux/UNIX? Angel <angel+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-19 06:52 +0000

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