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RE: i386 backend
- To: "Tim Prince" <tprince at computer dot org>,"James Dennett" <jdennett at acm dot org>
- Subject: RE: i386 backend
- From: "David Rasmussen" <pinkfloydhomer at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:21:51 +0100
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
>
> He probably assumes that because on almost any OS other than Windows, it
> is easy to do comparative profiling. Unfortunately, when comparing gcc
> with commercial compilers on Windows, or comparing Windows to linux, you
> may be reduced to inserting time stamp counter calls. Make them
> switchable to clock() calls as a slight concession to portability.
>
Why shouldn't this be possible on Windows?
Isn't the problem that different compilers have different obj file formats?
Anyway, I don't know what comparative profiling is, or how I am supposed to
do it, even under linux. I can do the tests under linux, you know.
Also, there is the cygwin tools for Windows, that uses gcc to compile
windows executables. Would that be any help?
David