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Re: History of GCC
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Marek Polacek <polacek at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Will Hawkins <whh8b at virginia dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:06:20 +0200
- Subject: Re: History of GCC
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- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 06:57:31PM +0200, Marek Polacek wrote:
> I think you can learn a lot if you follow the Changes pages, so e.g.
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html>, and go back down the history until
> you reach the ancient <https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html>.
Even older releases, while they don't have changes.html, have changes/news
etc. written in the pages referenced from
https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html#timeline
Also see https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#timeline
For questions like who has added feature XYZ, the best source is just the
source repository's history or ChangeLog files.
Jakub