[Gllug] The importance of the PC to free software (was Barbican website...)

[Pete Ryland]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:54:18PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Adam Bower spake:
> > gcc development started in 1987 apparently...
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html#timeline
> 
> No, that was the first beta. Development started before 1987:
> <http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull3.html> refers to *continued*
> development, so it had been going for some time.
> 
> The earliest copyright date in the changelogs (you have to dig them out
> of old CVS because the ancient changelogs aren't kept anywhere else)
> dates from GCC 1.17; older versions had no changelogs; yet older
> versions weren't even kept in a revision control system, and I guess
> their history is lost in the mists of time.
> 
> I know that G++ was one of the first non-cfront C++ compilers.

Well, according to http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html, development of
gcc began no earlier than 1985, and then only after flex/bison were usable.

> > thats quite a bit before the first linux release was a twinkle in
> > Linus Torvalds eye...
> 
> Quite so. GCC still shows its architectural heritage as a compiler for
> CISC chips (m68k and SPARC).

I guess you mean RISC.

Pete

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