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GCC Gets Its Own News Site

Posted by timothy on from the specialization-of-labor dept.

Marcel Cox writes "In an effort to promote the development of GCC, Mathieu Lacage created a GCC news page similar to the idea of Kernel Traffic. While we are on the topic of GCC, it might be worthwhile recalling two major events that occured during the last month: 1. The tree-ssa branch has been merged into mainline, which among others means the end of G77 and the addition of GFORTRAN, the new GNU Fortran 95 compiler. 2. The second annual GCC Developer's summit took place some 10 days ago in Ottawa."

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  1. Serious question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    While it is all well and good that GCC now has a news page, is there really anything newsworthy coming out of the project? A quick look at the page shows an obvious lack of substantive news items.

    The fact of the matter is that this is a compiler. And a not-as-good-as-commerical one, at that. MSVC.Net, icc, and even the old Borland compilers beat the pants off of it when it comes to code generation. gcc is famous for 1) taking longer to build identical sources, 2) generating slower code than commercial alternatives, and 3) not being as compliant as the latest VC.Net compilers (this is a very recent switch, though).

    But this is apples and oranges, you're saying. Gcc is a cross-platform compiler. None of those mentioned above are cross platform. Wrong. VC is cross platform insofar as x86, MIPS (2, 4), SHx, and ARM (v4, v4i, v4t, thumb) are separate platforms. VC covers them all, and produces code that is faster and more compact than gcc, and does so in less time than gcc takes.

    So I guess if anything ought to be posted on the new gcc news site, it ought to be how gcc is catching up to commerical alternatives (which, though not Free, are free for download).

  2. no frosty pist for you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hah! you fail it!