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Re:How I Came to Write D (2014) by pjmlp on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:48AM (#17235689)
Ah you mean gcc, the compiler that everyone ignored until Sun started the trend of UNIX vendors to charge for their compilers.
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Re:How I Came to Write D (2014) by jnbiche on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:47PM (#17243503)
GPL's runtime isn't GPL, it's got the runtime exception:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.en.html

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Re:How I Came to Write D (2014) by jnbiche on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @07:04AM (#17246010)
Sorry, I meant GCC's runtime isn't GPL.
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