[cfe-commits] correct comparisons page

[Jonathan Gray]

The comparisons page still needs to be updated on this.

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 04:45:04PM +0200, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Prototypes with a * have since been fixed,
> http://marc.info/?l=pcc-commit-list&m=125215185828082&w=2
> 
> Additionally it would nice if non specific/referenced claims
> such as "very inefficient code" could at least be qualified.
> 
> And the GCC pro of
> "does not require a C++ compiler to build it" should likely
> be added to the PCC section, which is rather noticeable
> when X86ISelDAGToDAG starts eating up 700MB or so of memory
> when being compiled with gcc.
> 
> In similiar taste would be "does not require GNU make to build"
> and "does not require GNU grep to run regressions", though
> the later does not apply to clang but rather llvm "make check".
> 
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:35:17AM +0200, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> > Prototypes using a VLA with * as the size apparently don't work when
> > tested here.
> > And I don't have a system tgmath.h here.
> > 
> > Apart from that at least,
> > 
> > inline keyword/semantics
> > VLA (not prototypes with * for size ?)
> > complex numbers, _Complex and _Imaginary types
> > _Bool type
> > ability to use abstract declarators everywhere allowed
> > designated initialisers
> > mixed type declarations/logic
> > type declaration in for loop
> > variadic macros
> > multiple type qualifiers
> > // comment
> > restrict qualifier
> > compound literals
> > 
> > Many GCC extensions are supported such as inline assembly format/constraints,
> > typeof, case ranges, attribute() etc as well.
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:25:19PM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
> > > What parts of c99 does it support? Is it comperable to gccs support?   
> > > For example, does it support VLAs fully, including arrays with * as the 
> > > size, tgmath.h, complex, etc?
> > >
> > > -Chris
> > >
> > > On Sep 4, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at goblin.cx> wrote:
> > >
> > >> PCC has supported C99 for a while now, so this statement
> > >> should be removed.
> > >>
> > >> Index: comparison.html
> > >> ===================================================================
> > >> --- comparison.html    (revision 80998)
> > >> +++ comparison.html    (working copy)
> > >> @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
> > >>     <ul>
> > >>     <li>PCC dates from the 1970's and has been dormant for most of  
> > >> that time.
> > >>         The clang + llvm communities are very active.</li>
> > >> -    <li>PCC doesn't support C99, Objective-C, and doesn't aim to  
> > >> support
> > >> +    <li>PCC doesn't support Objective-C, and doesn't aim to support
> > >>         C++.</li>
> > >>     <li>PCC's code generation is very limited compared to LLVM.  It  
> > >> produces very
> > >>         inefficient code and does not support many important  
> > >> targets.</li>