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gulliver · 20 April 2017, 23:05

VBCC generates much more optimised code than GCC (smaller & faster). But unfortunately, most current open source software is taylored towards newer versions of GCC. Then in Amigaland much of the old open source stuff is built with SASC.

If I could pick my poison, I would try to persuade VBCC guys to tackle some current GCC 7.x and SASC 6.x compatibility modes within VBCC, so we would get the best code generation on Amiga, with the most popular compilers (GCC & SASC). Add to that the fact that VBCC is still actively developed.

20 April 2017, 23:05	#23
gulliver BoingBagged Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The South of nowhere Age: 46 Posts: 2,358	VBCC generates much more optimised code than GCC (smaller & faster). But unfortunately, most current open source software is taylored towards newer versions of GCC. Then in Amigaland much of the old open source stuff is built with SASC. If I could pick my poison, I would try to persuade VBCC guys to tackle some current GCC 7.x and SASC 6.x compatibility modes within VBCC, so we would get the best code generation on Amiga, with the most popular compilers (GCC & SASC). Add to that the fact that VBCC is still actively developed.