On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 at 14:35, Ambrosio Berdijo Jr. wrote:
> > GCC is the compiler, it handles both C and C++ (thru g++ frontend?) It
> > is just the same as the tcc (Turbo C command line compiler)
>
> Just a side note, GCC is NOT "just the same" as Turbo C (tc) or Turbo
> C/C++ (tcc). The former complies with the ANSI C standard. The latter
> don't seem to strictly. They have a number of added stuff at least for C
> like say, getch() and clrscr() that don't work on GCC.
>
The old Turbo C 2.0 that everyone uses in C programming classes doesn't
comply with ANSI C, for the simple reason that it was produced before the
final standard was completed. They used an old draft standard that is
*more or less* like the actual C standard that did get ratified. They
have a number of non-ANSI extensions to the standard as well (just as GCC
does), in addition to a screen library (whence getch and clrscr), a
graphics library, and a number of other miscellaneous oddments.
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