NightStrike wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Joe Buck <joe.b...@synopsys.com> wrote:
GCC uses are the ones developed in the egcs days. Remember the old
days when the location of the development tree and the snapshots was
a secret, and people were threatened with banning if they let it out?
Are you serious? Why would it be handled that way?
I don't know either but this was another part of the egcs
move to the bazaar that seems obvious in retrospect.
Given what gcc is now, it is hard to believe that the
gcc testsuites, Standard C++ libraries and the
other language support that existed at that time was
all in separately maintained and distributed pieces.
You were individually responsible for assembling the
pieces if you wanted a C++ compiler. Hard to believe
but that's the way it was.
Which also points out another reason egcs happened.
There was a HUGE backlog of work that needed to
be merged into one gcc package. egcs broke that
logjam and gcc improved rapidly.
I just hope there is news from the FSF this morning so
we can get back to work. :)
--joel
