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"Heraldry test?""Heraldry test?"Posted Mar 23, 2012 3:40 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)In reply to: "Heraldry test?" by ghane Parent article: GCC celebrates 25 years with the 4.7.0 release
Ahhhh, thank you. I knew the history of GCC, but didn't connect it to that metaphor. Thanks very much.
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"Heraldry test?" Posted Mar 23, 2012 20:43 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] The use of the metaphor is mistaken. Much of the code in the first egcs release that wasn't in GCC 2.7.x was already checked in to the FSF tree, and merges continued to take place back and forth. Thinking that GCC was somehow a completely new compiler with the same name after the EGCS/GCC remerger is just wrong. Furthermore it was the same people developing the compiler before and after. What really happened was that there was a management shakeup.
"Heraldry test?" Posted Mar 25, 2012 1:03 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Quite. It wasn't even 'depose the king, he goes into exile'; kenner is *still* contributing to GCC now and then, and was contributing to egcs even while he was also maintaining trunk GCC.
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