On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 18:26, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > 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. But for completeness, the name change happened when EGCS replaced the original GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History#Reunification
