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Re: Gcc compiler advantage and disadvantage of gcc
On 8/19/2016 10:19 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> On 19/08/16 09:25, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 18/08/16 19:37, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
>>> On 18/08/16 19:29, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>>> On 08/18/2016 02:24 PM, Anna Szekér wrote:
>>>>> Witch compiler would you compare it to?
>>>>
>>>> A reasonable comparison would be the Oracle Studio 12.5 compiler which
>>>> creates wonderfully optimal code on both Sparc and x86 architectures.
>>>
>>> If somebody writes a nice comparison in the style of
>>> http://clang.llvm.org/comparison.html
>>
>> But hopefully slightly less self serving.
>
> To be honest, it doesn't seem an unfair characterization to me.
>
> GCC could highlight the ethical and tit-for-tat benefits of the GPL,
> but I guess they do not see those as a benefit.
>
> GCC has also the benefit of being a more mature code base and, as a
> result, it has been more thoroughly tested in a wider range of codes;
> yet this is difficult to quantify and arguably Clang is more widely
> used today than GCC, just not in Linux, thus this might not be true
> anymore.
>
> Is there anything else there that you think is misleading or plain wrong?
>
I have the impression that clang supports OpenMP on linux but not
Windows (where gcc drops a few OpenMP features).
--
Tim Prince