Hi Stephen!

On 28.07.95 10:46 you wrote to Tom Williams:

 SL> Eberhard Mattes port of the gnu g++ compiler to the OS/2 and DOS 
 SL> platforms. A superb compiler when compared to any other free 
 SL> compiler or the standard Unix compilers, but a bit below average 
 SL> when compared to commerical PC compilers.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I don't think this is right. What the emx/gnu package lacks from other
(commercial) compilers is "visual" tools or an ide. 
The compiler itself is real good. Compile time is relatively short and 
so is optimization. There are 2 ways of compiling with emx/gcc - using 
ld or using link386. Programs compiled with the first method can (as long 
as they don't use OS/2-only routines) also run as 32bit DOS programs.
An ide and / or visual tools don't have to be free software. You can use
IBM's WorkFrame and the toolkit (for the dialog editor etc.). This way
you still spare lots of money.
Even though I have a license for Watcom C/C++ 10.0 I still use emx/gnu
for development before porting to Watcom.

 Martin     ________/|/|
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