Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker

Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by sohail on Friday April 04, 2008 @03:42PM (#155166)

FINALLY! Now can someone please rewrite GCC? That is the ugliest piece of code I've ever seen.

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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by ashu on Friday April 04, 2008 @07:13PM (#155330)

Is it hindering innovation to that extent to justify the rewrite? Remember, GCC is the one of the most fundamental pieces of software running the entire OSS eco-system. It's internal beauty isn't so much important as it's utility to this system.

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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by wmf on Friday April 04, 2008 @11:46PM (#155484)

Apparently GCC is crimping Apple's style enough to justify a rewrite, although that may be due to licensing and lack of modularity more than ugly code.

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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by ken on Saturday April 05, 2008 @08:52PM (#155903)

Spoken like someone who's never tried to port GCC to a new CPU. It's seriously unfun.

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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by sadiq on Friday April 04, 2008 @03:46PM (#155175)

Check out clang, it's looking pretty promising.

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Re:Gold: Google Releases New and Improved GCC Linker by ralph on Saturday April 05, 2008 @08:09AM (#155596)

It's being done. It's called LLVM. Apple have been sponsoring it.

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