C compiler for 386 or 486

[Jim Patterson]

In article <mjnkowcz.672352737 at unix1.tcd.ie> mjnkowcz at unix1.tcd.ie (Maciej Jankowicz) writes:
>
>	The PC's using 386 or 486 CPU are present for some time, but
>I don't know about any C compilers which are able to generate code 
>suitable for them to get the best of the machine.
>	
>	I would appreciate very much any references of such products.

There are some fairly expensive compilers out there, which I have not
personally tried. I believe a company called PharLap makes one.

Or, get DJ Delorie's port of the Gnu CC compiler, which is available
under GNU General Public Licence (i.e. basically free). My experience
with it has been good, but I haven't tried anything large-scale and
there are a number of limitations (major ones are its incompatible
with other extended memory products e.g. Windows, and that 386's need
a 387 for floating point).

DJ's Gnu C compiler was posted in February to c.b.i.p but if you
missed it, here's some info on obtaining GCC. It's an FTP address; I
don't know of any uucp sites that might provide it. A warning: it's
big (the four .zoo files are about 1.6 Megabytes total).

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