Re: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:35:52PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2006-07-03 09:04:39, schrieb Lars Wirzenius:
> > su, 2006-07-02 kello 18:17 -0400, Jason Spiro kirjoitti:
> > > * Package name    : openwatcom
> > >   Description     : C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code
> > 
> > What does it mean for a compiler to produce portable code?
> 
> It produce executables for msdos, wfw311, win32, and linux.

Erm, no.  That's a cross-compiler, isn't it?  Any given output isn't
portable (it will run only on one OS), but it can just target multiple
backends.

And when you say Linux, I assume you mean Linux on i386 only.  (Which
limits its utility compared to gcc, and means we can't use it to build
any Debian packages).