Bernd Schmidt (bernds_cb1@t-online.de) on 6/24/10 wrote:
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>ajensen (@.) on 6/24/10 wrote:
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>>Vincent Diepeveen (diep@xs4all.nl) on 6/23/10 wrote:
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>>>The real problem of GCC is 64 bits code.
>>I think the real problem with GCC is GCC. It is said to be the ugliest hack out
>>there and at the same time one of the most important hacks. I think open source
>>community would be wise to make a shift to LLVM/CLANG. Not because it is better,
>>but because it can be made better. GCC is unmaintainable, or so I have heard pretty
>much everywhere I read on this web.
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>Not everything you read on the internet is automatically true. If you have no
>personal knowledge, could you stop spreading FUD?

It seems however that the words of Marc Lehmann, GCC project team member, from start of this century have become reality. When it was still unclear whether IA-64 or x86-64 would get the dominant platform, in an e-mail towards me he pointed out that the move towards 64 bits would prove to be the ultimate disaster for GCC.

Looking backwards his prediction of nearly 10 years ago has been very very accurate.

Vincent