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Interview with Mark Mitchel, GCC's Release Engineer

Posted by michael on from the make-interview dept.

ICC-Rocks writes "In light of the imminent release of the first 'stable' version of GCC version 3, OSNews features an interview with Mark Mitchel, GCC's Release Engineer. They are talking about GCC 3.x, the future and the competition."

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  1. short intro by tps12 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Background for newbies...

    GCC is the compiler du jour for minority hobby operating systems like Linux and BSD. It was invented as part of the GNU project as a replacement for proprietary tools such as Visual C[++] on Windows, and has done a fair job at keeping up.

    A while back, there was a small uproar over the egcs compiler, a competing product, but when Linux bought out Egcs.com, for better or for worse, the two became one. Since then allegations have flown regarding the stability and security of GCC.

    It looks like things are finally back on track for GCC, and I think we have everyone to thank.

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