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Re:Why people were enthused about GCC early on in its life by jordigh on Monday February 02, 2015 @11:13AM (#8984863)
> Maybe I'm weird, but I'm still enthused about GCC.

I'm just as weird as you.

I am hoping to be able to devote some time this year to cross-pollinate with David Malcolm's work to get libgccjit working on GNU Octave:

https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?8395

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Re:Why people were enthused about GCC early on in its life by gerbilly on Monday February 02, 2015 @12:49PM (#8985489)
I'm weird too, and I'd add that I think Autoconf is also awesome.
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Re:Why people were enthused about GCC early on in its life by jordigh on Monday February 02, 2015 @01:33PM (#8985800)
I think the idea of autoconf is great (test for features, not for versions). The implementation in m4 is sadness.

It's possible to do autoconf-style checks in other build systems, but not as easily. I don't know why most build systems seem to ignore the wisdom of autoconf.

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Re:Why people were enthused about GCC early on in its life by kevin_thibedeau on Monday February 02, 2015 @03:59PM (#8986927)
m4 is actually pretty awesome when fulfilling its original purpose of adding macros to programming languages. Certainly it's not hygienic and is a pain to debug but it can work wonders to bypass language limitations especially when dealing with assembly code.
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