Subject: Re: __STDC__ usage...
To: None <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 02/20/2002 20:35:15
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:59:36PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 
>  > It wasn't especially difficult to add basic ansi support to pcc either,
>  > I assume it can be a quite nice compiler after getting it up-to-date.
> 
> Well, nice in that it's extremely simple ... but I seem to recall that
> PCC generated pretty bad code.
> 
Bad compared to modern compilers, yes, but not especially bad compared
to how compilers worked back then. The largest problem here is that it
couldn't use registers as it wanted to.

-- Ragge