A good compiler

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Richard Bos

Harald van =?UTF-8?B?RMSzaw==?= said:
As suggested by my headers, I live in the Netherlands. Two Dutch online
shops I've bought books from before, Bol and Selexyz if any other Dutch
folks are interested, offer the printed version jacob navia mentioned for
53 and 60 Euros respectively.

Alternatively, go to your local bookshop and have them order it by ISBN.
If they can't do that for you, your bookshop is worse than mine, which
makes it pretty damned bad. Local bookshops need your support - if you
buy at Bol, sooner or later you won't be able to buy anywhere _but_ at
Bol, and we'll all have you to blame for those horrible adverts.

(And if I read your headers correctly: I would not be surprised if
Waanders, on 't Eiland, had it in stock, and severely disappointed if
they couldn't order it. Decent bookshop, that.)

Richard
 
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Harald van =?UTF-8?B?RMSzaw==?=

Richard said:
Alternatively, go to your local bookshop and have them order it by ISBN.
If they can't do that for you, your bookshop is worse than mine, which
makes it pretty damned bad. Local bookshops need your support - if you
buy at Bol, sooner or later you won't be able to buy anywhere _but_ at
Bol, and we'll all have you to blame for those horrible adverts.

I can order at my local bookstore by ISBN, but they are consistently more
expensive, sometimes by very little, sometimes by a lot, but never cheaper
by even a bit for technical books that I've noticed so far. The nearest
less local good bookstore is Van Piere in Eindhoven, and that's Selexyz.
(And if I read your headers correctly: I would not be surprised if
Waanders, on 't Eiland, had it in stock, and severely disappointed if
they couldn't order it. Decent bookshop, that.)

Sorry, but you could see my province in my NNTP-Posting-Host header; Zwolle
isn't where I live. :)
 
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David Thompson

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:39:02 +0000, Richard Heathfield
So my own recommendation to the OP is that he finds at least two
compilers conforming to ISO/IEC 9899 (any version), each from a
different provider, and that he tests all his code on both. If one of
the compilers can be installed only on a mainframe, so much the better.

How is that better? Unless the OP has a mainframe (very unlikely) or
access to one (still unlikely), then the tests on that compiler are
going to take quite a while -- almost as long as your infinite loop
program, which BTW I hope is still going along nicely.

Testing on (at least) two implementations that are as different as you
can manage is certainly a good idea. But IF running Windows, I'd say
that MSVC and gcc-cygwin (avoiding MS' libc) get you most of the way
there, at zero cost and very conveniently.

- formerly david.thompson1 || achar(64) || worldnet.att.net
 
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Richard Heathfield

David Thompson said:
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:39:02 +0000, Richard Heathfield


How is that better?

It's surprising how many character set assumptions an EBCDIC
implementation can reveal, and plenty of filesystem assumptions fall
apart on a SDS/PDS filesystem.
Unless the OP has a mainframe (very unlikely) or
access to one (still unlikely),

Why unlikely? Most - indeed, almost all - of the C programmers I've
actually met in person have had access to mainframe computers.
then the tests on that compiler are
going to take quite a while -- almost as long as your infinite loop
program, which BTW I hope is still going along nicely.

Oh yes - but it's a little early to report on progress. All I can say is
that it hasn't quite reached infinity yet. Watch this space .
 

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