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GCC celebrates its 25th anniversary with the release of 4.7.0

111 pointsby octoploidabout 13 years ago

7 comments

pjmlpabout 13 years ago
Congratulations!<p>Before GCC existed, UNIX vendors used to sell the C compiler + tools in expensive separate SDK, the same way the OSS community complains about certain companies nowadays.<p>Without it, the way we develop software today would look really different.
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cliffbeanabout 13 years ago
This sounds like an excellent occasion for the GCC maintainers to consider how revision control software has progressed in the last 25 years, and to re-evaluate the utility of the ChangeLog file; a manually maintained an "undo list" for all commits.
malkiaabout 13 years ago
And to think that all that started (GNU), because Xerox denied giving the source code for one of it's printers :)<p>Kudos to RMS.
abrahamsenabout 13 years ago
The revision history go back almost that long (November 1988): <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/gcc/analyses/latest" rel="nofollow">https://www.ohloh.net/p/gcc/analyses/latest</a>
winter_blueabout 13 years ago
By the way, does anyone know of an easy way to install gcc47 on OS X?<p>I've tried brew, port &#38; fink to no avail.
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stoxabout 13 years ago
I'm feeling old. 25 years of compilation with gcc.
hamidrabout 13 years ago
yup. Now lets discuss the modular system?
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