Bill Cunningham via Gcc-help kirjoitti 5.10.2021 klo 20.14:
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". Something that is just C and written in C I mean. I would
like to loko at it anyway. Thanks.
In :
https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/gcc/
the first version of GNU C++ seems to be the g++-1.37. As a separate
source package. The 'gcc-x.y' packages included only
the sources of the "GNU C compiler" and the "GNU Compiler Collection is
not mentioned at all in the README. For
instance the 1.37.1 one :
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This directory contains the version 1.37 test release of the GNU C compiler.
All bugs reported for previous test releases have been fixed.
Some bugs surely remain.
See the file gcc.texinfo for installation and porting information.
The file INSTALL contains a copy of the installation information.
The GNU C compiler is free software. See the file COPYING for copying
permission.
The files print-self.c and print-self1.c are not part of GCC.
They are programs that print themselves on standard output.
They were written by Dario Dariol and Giovanni Cozzi, and are
included for your hacking pleasure.
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The g++-1.37 README tells :
"GNU C++ is GNU CC, with a C++ front end. GNU CC is the Free Software
Foundation's optimizing, retargetable, ANSI C compiler."
From the first it is easy to think "GCC" meaning the same as "GNU CC" and
this then : "GNU CC is the Free Software Foundation's optimizing,
retargetable,
ANSI C compiler".
I remember myself starting to use GCC with the version gcc-1.41 on a
SCO Xenix 386 PC system and then thinking "GCC" meaning the same as
"GNU C compiler".
Still in the gcc-2.x versions using these terms has continued. When the
meaning was changed so needs some research...
Cheers, Kai
