James Kanze wrote:
> On May 8, 10:10 pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> I've not experience with anything later than SunStudio 11, but
> with that, while the compiler is fairly good (although not quite
> as good as g++), both of the libraries available with it are, to
> put it mildly, junk, with any number of serious errors which
> need work arounds.
>
I don't consider STL****t to be junk.
>> If you want maximum ****tability, check with more than one
>> compiler.
>
> Or use the same compiler everywhere:-). The simplest way to
> achieve ****tability is just to standardize on g++. As far as I
> can tell (and I've a fair amount of experience in the question),
> this has no real disadvantages for Unix platforms: the native
> compilers will typically optimize a bit better, but most
> applications don't need that extra performance. As for the
> tools, vim or emacs and GNU make are the same for both as well
> (and GNU make ensures a more or less ****table build environment
> as well---writing ****table makefiles is more difficult than
> writing ****table C++).
>
I was talking about the profiler, debugger and sup****t tools like
lock_lint, not the editors. GNU make lacks (or at least used to lack)
decent sup****t for distributed building, something I've fond very useful
over the years.
--
Ian Collins.
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