GCC 4.1 Released

Luineancaion writes "Looks like GCC 4.1 has been released. From what I know this includes the GNU Classpath merge and means that Azureus can now be used in a 100% Free-Software system. Thanks to everyone that worked on it, and keep up the good work!"

Comments

Re:RMS wrote GCC to pursue software freedom.

[Paul Crowley]

Open Source == free software. All open source software is free software and vice versa, and the philosophical goal of the open source movement is software freedom. The name "open source" was chosen because "free software" makes people think of price, not freedom, and they wanted to emphasize freedom. Stallman claims otherwise because he's in a personal fight with Raymond.

Re:RMS wrote GCC to pursue software freedom.

[Peaker]

BSD/Public domain software is Opensource, but not Free software.

Re:I'm thinking of contributing to GCC...

[larry bagina]

Browse through the gcc source tree sometime. You'll find it's a big steaming pile of shit and if you want to understand it, you need to hold your nose and take a big bite. I'm not saying gcc is bad - on the contrary, it's quite good. However, there is no documentation or high/medium level overview for people that want to develop it, and the separation between the pieces (lexing, parsing, optimizing, etc) aren't as nice as academic models. Everytime gcc doesn't fuck up and produce incorrect code, you should be glad those gcc "elitists" are doing their job.