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  1. …to the runtime exception. [1] https://ubuntu.com/blog/quetzal-is-taking-flight-update-on-u... [2] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/6599da043e22e96ac830f... [3] https://www.fsf.org/news/2009-01-gcc-exception [4]…
    comment by comex · 2021-07-24 · in “Tivoization” and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft
  2. …"shrink wrapping". MSVC may do it more aggressively when profile information is available. See https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/shrink-wra... or https://llvm.org/doxygen/ShrinkWrap_8cpp_source.html .
    comment by neerajsi · 2021-07-12 · in It’s Not Always iCache
  3. …less heavy at 512 bytes per node[1]. But the MSVC part — that caught me completely off guard. https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/47749c43acb460ac8f410...
    comment by owl57 · 2021-06-23 · in My favourite C++ footgun
  4. Take as an example the gnat.sockets package from upstream gcc: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/ada/libgna... Compare with the same file from the GNAT 2021 CE install: GNAT/2021/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.3.1/rts-native…
    comment by tobiasu · 2021-05-28 · in Gnat 2021 GPL Community Edition Ada 202x compiler released
  5. …with their maintainers having non-ASCII names. Have you talked to a human being regarding this? https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/MAINTAINERS#L4...
    comment by the-smug-one · 2021-05-24 · in This FSF form assumes everyone's full legal name can be written in ASCII (2011)
  6. …?? In my experience, allowing both tabs and spaces just leads to that kind of mess, consistently: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-... and for zero good reason as alignment is a semantic thing, and tools cannot…
    comment by jcelerier · 2021-05-17 · in Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (2017)
  7. Neoverse-N2 will have SVE2 (source https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config/aar... )
    comment by Teongot · 2021-04-12 · in Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems
  8. …find myself often looking over MSVC's implementation straight in VS and comparing it to libstdc++: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/tree/master/libstdc%2B%2B-... One recent thing I caught from going over the implementation was how MSVC's…
    comment by Kranar · 2021-04-07 · in All C++20 core language features with examples
  9. …the missing type as a runtime. See for example this, a software float for crappy ARM processors. https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/16e2427f50c208dfe07d0... I was more so wondering, if a COBOL compiler (given how low level the language…
    comment by sonthonax · 2021-04-07 · in An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real Problem
  10. …[1]: https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/CFI-directives.html [2]: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libgcc/unwind-... [3]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/libunwind/src...
    comment by loeg · 2021-02-11 · in Pattern matching accepted for Python
  11. What, since when is GCC implemented in C++? I don't see any of that: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc Maybe in libstdc++, but what else would you use there. I wanted to know what register allocation algorithms GCC implements, but I can't…
    comment by cptwunderlich · 2021-01-13 · in Why Apple Chose Clang (2008)
  12. World is not perfect. In case of gcc, it is only a mirror on github [ https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc ], so we dont get all the metrics, we do plan to improve this part [but this will be slow to clone repo, know their custom issue…
    comment by abharya · 2020-12-11 · in Finding Critical Open Source Projects
  13. GNU still ships it. https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-...
    comment by jeffbee · 2020-11-01 · in Ropes, an Alternative to Strings [pdf] (1995)
  14. …is an aggregate type, there isn't even a user-defined move constructor (or copy constructor)! https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-...
    comment by tylerhou · 2020-08-21 · in But I was helping the compiler
  15. …RH employee. The linux kernel is mostly comprised of people paid to develop by their employers. [0] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/MAINTAINERS
    comment by maccard · 2020-08-13 · in "Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla
  16. …one is most interesting because there's a link to the actual code and comments by the developer. https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config/ia6...
    comment by chubot · 2020-07-15 · in Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies
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    GCC Moves from C++98 to C++11
    story by signa11 · 2020-05-20 · 1 comment
  18. I was curious why that'd be the case. I checked GCC's implementation. It seems to be here: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-... Looks like they had to make this very generic, generic enough to account for random…
    comment by gnulinux · 2020-05-19 · in Generating random numbers using C++ standard library: the problems
  19. GCC treats the two identically. See https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/229c0ef777161ec5adfb7...
    comment by scatters · 2020-04-27 · in The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2018)
  20. …it but my folks here and the llvm engineers seem to be pretty certain that's the problem (this: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libgcc/unwind-... ). Right now we are rearranging our compiler so we throw fewer exceptions…
    comment by drmeister · 2020-03-01 · in Cost of a thread in C++ under Linux
  21. …lot of such tricks. Check out the GCC sources, for example tree-ssa-phiopt.c[1] and ifcvt.c[2] [1] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/tree-ssa-p... [2] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/ifcvt.c
    comment by bonzini · 2020-01-02 · in RISC-V Stumbling Blocks
  22. For reference: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/graphs/code-frequency
    comment by sdegutis · 2019-11-14 · in GCC 7.5
  23. …out. Compare: #define ALLOC_MEMORY(ptr, numElems) _alloc_memory((ptr), (numElems), sizeof **(ptr)) https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-v3/include/bits/stl_vector.h (Not a fair comparison, but I think it makes a very…
    comment by jstimpfle · 2019-10-26 · in Beating C with Futhark Running on GPU
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    GCC adds Wenum-conversion flag
    story by Procedural · 2019-09-11 · 0 comments
  25. …in the GCC source code and see what their enormous tables have to say. For Zen since 2017 (znver1): https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/44e419819c4076843d0c92dc6913821a016a8519/gcc/common/config/i386/i386-common.c#L1673-L1681 For…
    comment by arthur2e5 · 2019-09-08 · in Glibc sysdeps: dl_platform detection effectively performs “cripple AMD”
  26. …- if you assume it will take just as long to understand as the entirety of the GCC compiler: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc
    comment by ColanR · 2019-03-26 · in Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language
  27. …from the 70's, you will find it's very direct about it. For this specific optimization, you want https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/tree-ssa-c...
    comment by DannyBee · 2019-03-06 · in GCC proves an uninitialized variable must be 0 and doesn't warn about it
  28. …In C++, this warning is also enabled by -Wall. In C, it is also enabled by -Wextra. Since 1996. https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/de9554eb8ae74764555... (And prior to that explicit option, it was just enabled as part of -Wextra/-W,…
    comment by loeg · 2018-11-30 · in Google C++ Style Guide Is No Good
  29. No, GCC is still written mostly in C. Try: git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc.git cloc gcc/gcc
    comment by x0re4x · 2018-10-03 · in C is the desert island language
  30. …lot of e.g. the optimization passes in GCC a lot easier to read. It's probably above par, but e.g. https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/gimple-ssa... is really well explained imo.
    comment by anarazel · 2018-09-21 · in Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
  31. …Compare this to std::string. Different compilers implement it differently, but let's look at gcc: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-... https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-... You've got a…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2018-09-12 · in Why Rust closures are somewhat hard
  32. …things Here’s a link to the GCC header from 2002 that includes that _mm_cvtpd_ps intrinsic: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/d3ceaee1b851570b269... If you think something that hasn’t changed in 16 years is unstable, I’d like to…
    comment by Const-me · 2018-05-16 · in Rust programs versus Go
  33. GNU libiberty includes a Rust symbol demangler that you can link: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libiberty/rust...
    comment by mnemonik · 2018-04-02 · in Building Tiny Rust Binaries for Embedded Linux
  34. …the case may be) uses an open source floating point implementation (and not virial like the GPL): https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/tree/master/libgcc/soft-fp With enough finageling you could utilize the libgcc floating point…
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2018-02-15 · in Lessons learned while developing Age of Empires 1 Definitive Edition
  35. …way becomes much simpler than what’s possible with C. Compare with “old school” way of doing it: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/opts.c https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/opts-globa...…
    comment by Const-me · 2018-01-28 · in How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments
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    GCC now supports filesystem
    story by entelechy · 2018-01-06 · 0 comments
  37. …descent parser (even for C++ which is reputed to be "impossible" to parse). Here's the C parser: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/c/c-parser... and the C++ parser: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/master/gcc…
    comment by rwmj · 2017-10-17 · in Ohm: Parsing Made Easy
  38. https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/4bec7283cda24b180ea7a...
    comment by clarry · 2017-09-10 · in Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015)
  39. …so the compiler didn't inline it. In essence, you do a virtual call which I think winds you up in https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/1cb6c2eb3b8361d850be8... which itself redirects to a whole bunch of stuff. The virtual call alone is a…
    comment by Veedrac · 2017-06-11 · in Translating a C++ parser to Haskell
  40. …that aren’t OOP. Even most compilers are OOP, take a look: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/tree/master/gcc https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn > An object can contain references to any other object held…
    comment by Const-me · 2017-05-12 · in Don't overuse interfaces
  41. …and we have to switch to a complete different implementation, and/or re-write it from scratch. [1] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/search?p=1&q=GLIBCXX_FORCE... [2] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-...
    comment by yokaze · 2017-05-06 · in The Horror in the Standard Library
  42. …EDIT2: I filed a bug report for gcc, https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80187 [1] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-...
    comment by ambrop7 · 2017-03-25 · in C++ 17 is Done
  43. The author seems to ignore that GCC's implementation of std::hash is the identity on integral types: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/cf8c140a8b8131b3ab4f5... This is an incredibly poor design choice (at Facebook we'd say…
    comment by ot · 2017-02-27 · in I Wrote My Fastest Hashtable
  44. …example, here's part of the test case for the -Wmisleading-indentation warning I added in gcc 6: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/testsuite/... i.e. that's one 700 line test source file, expressing most of the test…
    comment by dmalcolm · 2017-02-14 · in Testing GCC
  45. …[1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/17472542/gcc-4.2_4.2.3-2ubunt... [2] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/compare/gcc-4_2_3-release.... [3] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/80cacf54c3d410d5552... [4] https://gcc.gnu.org/bu
    comment by reubenmorais · 2016-07-07 · in Announcing Rust 1.10
  46. For specific test cases, you could use gcc's test cases: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/tree/master/gcc/testsuite Not sure about the latter, but you could probably accomplish something similar without too much work using a fuzzer.
    comment by robertelder · 2016-06-14 · in Show HN: My own C compiler (just for fun)
  47. …on gccgo so I think most of his contributions [0] are for the Go compiler. [0] Example commit: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/b0c0971248103432dd6...
    comment by misframer · 2016-04-27 · in GCC 6.1 Released
  48. Seems like it is still there? https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc++-v3/i...
    comment by iso-8859-1 · 2016-04-27 · in Xi editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust
  49. Funny. https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/bd3f0a53c07086e978ea4... I'm not sure of the behaviour but there is still a loop...
    comment by vmorgulis · 2016-03-25 · in Why Concepts didn’t make C++17
  50. …lock pool, so it should be fine for the copy! If you want to take a look at gcc's implementation: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/bd3f0a53c07086e978ea4... https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/bd3f0a53c07086e978ea4...
    comment by jguegant · 2016-02-05 · in An introduction to C++'s variadic templates: a thread-safe multi-type map