[geeks] GCC ISO compliance

[Joshua D Boyd]

Just read the current Dr Dobbs.  They did ISO conformance testing of a bunch
of C++ compilers.  In particular, GCC 2.95.something, 2.96, 3.0.4, Visual
C++ 6.0, Borland something or other, and MIPSPro 7.3.something

Interestingly, they found GCC 3.0.4 to be the most compliant.

This is usually a pretty thorough magazine, but there was something worrying
about the article.  They said that they tested Visual C++ and Borland on
Windows, and that the rest of the testing was done on linux and Solaris.  Now,
how the hack do you test MIPSPro on Linux and/or Solaris?

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Joshua D. Boyd