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Continuity problems

Continuity problems

Posted Mar 25, 2012 0:49 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Continuity problems by wahern
Parent article: GCC celebrates 25 years with the 4.7.0 release

I'd say that by about the time of the egcs fork GCC was close to impossible to hack on. Cruft piled on cruft. However, starting in the 3.x eras a determined effort was made to fix this (still underway: tree-ssa was a massive improvement, but it couldn't have been done without other cleanups), and it is now very much nicer.


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