On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherr...@oarcorp.com> wrote: > 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.
yes, that was a nightmare. -- Gaby
