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Re:Why people were enthused about GCC early on in its life by maxlybbert on Monday February 02, 2015 @02:08PM (#8986080)
GCC developers say that things are better now. I really don't know; I haven't checked.

But the simple fact remains that they did intentionally create hard to maintain code and spent several years rejecting patches that would clean up the monstrosity as a defense against people using GCC code in nonfree programs.

It's hard to trust their judgment now.

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Re:Why people were enthused about GCC early on in its life by bronson on Monday February 02, 2015 @03:20PM (#8986668)
Things are better, yes, but there's still a long way to go. This LWN article covers one developer's ongoing frustration: https://lwn.net/Articles/629259/
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Re:Why people were enthused about GCC early on in its life by maxlybbert on Monday February 02, 2015 @06:02PM (#8987701)
Yes, the efforts to make it hard for nonfree programs to use parts of GCC also make it hard for free programs to use parts of GCC.
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