GCC 1.0 Source Code

[Jeff Law]

On 9/22/25 9:25 AM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) via Gcc wrote:
> On 20/09/2025 15:15, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 
>> Maybe someone else has other/older releases? Or maybe they can be
>> reconstructed from git, svn, cvs or rcs files?
> 
> I don't think so.  The git history that far back is very incomplete.  In the early days of gcc development, I think history was kept by using emacs revision files (copies of the source with a version number (a bit like VMS).  When there were too many copies and it seemed like there would be no need to revert a change the older ones were simply deleted.
Absolutely correct.  Unless someone happens to have a tarball or backup 
tapes from the old "mole" system at the FSF, odds are that history is 
lost forever.

jeff