Of Bounties and Mercenaries

Stephan T. Lavavej stl@caltech.edu
Tue Apr 6 03:09:00 GMT 2004


[Ben Elliston]
> This should be a side goal of future GCC work: to develop it
> in a way that makes it easier for the uninitiated to hack on
> it.  This includes removing complicated cruft and generally
> trying to keep the code base small and as simple as possible.

How about writing gcc in Modern, Standard C++?  You could do away with your
crazy garbage-collected C (double ugh).

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