GCC front-ends

Posted Jan 1, 2025 22:00 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: GCC front-ends by ceplm
Parent article: An Algol 68 front end for GCC

> There is and there never was anything significantly wrong with GCC.

Care to remember the state of GCC around 2005? It was a crusty C codebase that still pretended to be buildable by pre-C89 compilers.

The first clang compiler set the bar on error reporting, with colored output that pinpointed the exact position of the errors. GCC later replicated that.