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122 mentions on Hacker News by 108 people: 7 stories, 115 comments · first 2011-12-14 · latest 2026-09-27

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  1. …GCC is nearing 10MLoC - 4 orders of magnitude difference - and its C parser alone is >10kLoC: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/c/c-parser...
    comment by userbinator · 2014-11-08 · in CC500: a tiny self-hosting C compiler
  2. …example, this is the part of libsupc++ (effectively gnu's c++ "runtime") that deals with throwing: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-...
    comment by stormbrew · 2014-10-29 · in A taste of Rust for C/C++ programmers
  3. …late '90s, when RMS stopped being sole maintainer. It's now maintained by a whole bunch of people: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/MAINTAINERS
    comment by _delirium · 2014-10-07 · in Help improve gcc
  4. Are you talking about this? https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-... Do you know what the time complexity of their merging algorithm is? As a side note, an optimal merging algorithm is in the paper called "On Optimal…
    comment by wfunction · 2014-10-01 · in Parallel In-Place Merge Sort
  5. …Search for "Here's a nickel" [edit: clearer source than the text around the patch: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libgcc/soft-fp... ]
    comment by fixermark · 2014-09-12 · in Hidden text inside every compiled Rust program
  6. …map of nodes, which will need to grow very rarely). Libstdc++ describes how it's implemented here: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-... Libc++ doesn't have as descriptive a comment but it's impemented basically…
    comment by yoklov · 2014-08-31 · in Facebook's std::vector optimization
  7. …- django https://github.com/django/django/commit/3e2edad9c7c6b980bbc1... ('Missed one') - gcc https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/commit/adfbb67780c49a809d26bd... ('Adjust') Thanks anyway for your precious feedback
    comment by gianlucaguarini · 2014-07-20 · in Get rid of all the boring git commit messages like 'small fix'
  8. Since it's trivia we're dealing with. This commit was made 18 days before I was born: https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/commit/cbbca02e2430b2dc1f5681... :)
    comment by dufferzafar · 2014-07-02 · in 54-line if condition in gcc's reload.c
  9. It was 16 lines in 1992. I guess that's not what it is today, but not exactly "so small". https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/42c63e4d48cfac192be8c0cc... The copyright notice goes back to '87. I wonder if '92 is just where the source…
    comment by asveikau · 2014-07-02 · in 54-line if condition in gcc's reload.c
  10. Trivia: This code is older than many of the readers. https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blame/7057506456ba18f080679b2...
    comment by AYBABTME · 2014-07-02 · in 54-line if condition in gcc's reload.c
  11. …specific line in github with #LNNN. Which you can get by clicking on the line number. Pretty handy. https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/master/libgcc/libgcc2.c#...
    comment by stormbrew · 2014-06-04 · in We Need Hardware Traps for Integer Overflow
  12. …right but GCC compares the result of two shift operations differing by one in the shift amount. [1] https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/master/libgcc/libgcc2.c
    comment by danbruc · 2014-06-04 · in We Need Hardware Traps for Integer Overflow
  13. …to assume that the optimizer recognizes these patterns and uses hardware flags where available. [1] https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/master/libgcc/libgcc2.c
    comment by danbruc · 2014-06-04 · in We Need Hardware Traps for Integer Overflow
  14. Ah sorry, teach me to try to be clever... :) It appears that the Changelog was modified thusly: https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/commit/63f5ad449bbe0a4d478ae9... I guess you could just download the source and see if it's in there. EDIT: It…
    comment by mattparlane · 2012-03-01 · in GCC 4.6.3 Released
  15. …and when unleashed with C create things far more nasty than their assembly counterparts. nasty: https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/master/gcc/c-family/c-co... nasty: https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/master/gcc/c-family/c-le... But you…
    comment by thejefflarson · 2011-12-14 · in A Case Against Using CoffeeScript