On 26 October 2016 at 11:23, Will Hawkins <wh...@virginia.edu> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > My name is Will Hawkins and I am a longtime user of gcc and admirer of > the project. I hope that this is the proper forum for the question I > am going to ask. If it isn't, please accept my apology and ignore me. > > I am a real geek and I love the history behind open source projects. > I've found several good resources about the history of "famous" open > source projects and organizations (including, but definitely not > limited to, the very interesting Free as in Freedom 2.0). > > Unfortunately there does not appear to be a good history of the > awesome and fundamental GCC project. I know that there is a page on > the wiki (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History) but that is really the > best that I can find. > > Am I missing something? Are there good anecdotes about the history of > the development of GCC that you think I might find interesting? Any > pointers would be really great! > > Thanks for taking the time to read my questions. Thanks in advance for > any information that you have to offer. I really appreciate everyone's > effort to make such a great compiler suite. It's only with such a > great compiler that all our other open source projects are able to > succeed! This is an excellent blog post written by Honza on evolution of Link-time optimization in GCC: http://hubicka.blogspot.in/2014/04/linktime-optimization-in-gcc-1-brief.html
Thanks, Prathamesh > > Thank you! > Will
