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Re:54-line if condition in gcc's reload.c by mrspeaker on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @01:12AM (#7975331)
That's beautiful. It may be a monster, but it started so small in 1992 - then was grown with loving care in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, and 2011!
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Re:54-line if condition in gcc's reload.c by asveikau on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @01:22AM (#7975358)
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 control kicks in.

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Re:54-line if condition in gcc's reload.c by LukeShu on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:26PM (#7977899)
I thinks that's just when the source control kicks in.

DannyBee claims that reload was started in the late 80s.

There are commits going back to 1988, but it looks like a lot of the early commits are out of order; the repository was (at least) converted from RCS to CVS to SVN to Git.

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