Re: [MiNT] XaAES sources for FreeMiNT 1.16.3

["Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no>]

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From: "Vincent Rivière" <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:19 PM
To: <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] XaAES sources for FreeMiNT 1.16.3

> I don't want to say here that GCC is bad software.
> Like any software, it has bugs. And 99.5% of the time, it works very well. 
> It has not more bugs than other software of the same size, it has

The biggest problem with gcc is not bugs. As you say, it actually works very 
well. The real problem is that it's very, very, very, very slow. Even on my 
Milan060 it's too slow to be used for actual development. Sometimes I wish 
that MiNT/XaAES could be compiled with PureC again. Then I could even look 
for and possibly fix bugs myself. Now I'm just too impatient to wait for gcc 
to finish. I was poking around XaAES about a year ago, doing some minor 
modifications just to get familiar with the code. I gave up. I make too many 
errors while typing, and spent too much time waiting for gcc to tell me that 
something is wrong, but it can't tell me where. It's easier with Pure C. 
Alt+C, and in a second I get a long, nice list of my errors, with (correct!) 
line-numbers and all.

Jo Even 


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