On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 18:16, Bill Cunningham via Gcc-help <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Does anyone know offhand, what was the last gcc version to be the "GNU C > Compiler", before the project was changed to "GNU Compiler Collection". It was already the "GNU Compiler Collection" for GCC 2.95 > Something that is just C and written in C I mean. The name change doesn't mean "not just C". It stopped being "just C" many years before the name change. C++ support was added in 1987, the same year that version 1.0 of the "GNU C Compiler" was released (see Wikipedia). Compiling GCC requires a C++ compiler since 4.8, see https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html "Versions of GCC prior to 11 also allow bootstrapping with an ISO C++98 compiler, versions of GCC prior to 4.8 also allow bootstrapping with a ISO C89 compiler, and versions of GCC prior to 3.4 also allow bootstrapping with a traditional (K&R) C compiler." So basing anything on the name is misguided, it won't help you find what you're looking for.
