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Re:Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you by kragen on Thursday May 05, 2022 @08:03PM (#31279637)
There are small parts of GCC that are written in C++, but at the time when universities had "one multi-user unix server for all students" it was 100% C.
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Re:Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you by pjmlp on Friday May 06, 2022 @01:55AM (#31281756)
Yeah, but that was 40 years ago, back when GCC still stood for GNU C Compiler.
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Re:Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you by kragen on Friday May 06, 2022 @09:08AM (#31284662)
I had pegged it as between 20 and 30 years ago, but someone pointed out that the author said they tried using asan. 40 years ago most universities didn't have Unix boxes accessible to random undergraduates at all.

GCC started having parts written in C++ 12 years ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/542457/

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Re:Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you by turminal on Thursday May 05, 2022 @08:18PM (#31279728)
and there was no LLVM :)
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Re:Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you by kragen on Thursday May 05, 2022 @08:20PM (#31279746)
Nor Rust!
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