Re: Switching to Linux and C

From: smf <*smf_at_null.net*> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:22:44 +0100 Message-ID: <509f2886-b4a8-7ec1-77e6-2be199833aa3@null.net> · smf_at_null.net

On 23/08/2017 10:08, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:

> I just found out on Wikipedia that gcc/djgpp won't run on/compile for 
> 8088 and 8286 so it seems that I still need to stick to Turbo C or 
> Turbo Pascal. 

Yeah. I always used Microsoft C 1.52 for 16 bit DOS code.

For 32 & 64 bit I use gcc, clang and Microsoft C v140 (which is 
essentially Visual Studio 2015 but it is an optional part of Visual 
Studio 2017 in case v141 doesn't work for you, which is lucky because it 
doesn't work for me).

If I were picking one, then I'd go for clang. It's the default compiler 
on MacOS X & it rejects a lot of bad and unsafe code that GCC happily 
compiles.

But I hate Richard Stalman way more than I hate Bill Gates or Steve Jobs 
(clang were a heavy user of clang since 2005), so I may be biased.

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