Solaris version number stew

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, David Allan wrote:

> What's the general take on gcc for Solaris?  I know the C compiler that
> ships isn't great, and you can buy a better one from Sun, but I've used
> gcc to build stuff and it seems ok.  I'm no programmer, though.
> 
> Dave

Actually, Sun doesn't ship a C compiler with Solaris at all. There's a
dummy "cc" program in /usr/ucb that just prints an error message:

    /usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed

Most of the claims I've heard were that gcc gave better code, but I've
never seen hard data regarding the issue.

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