Somehow I never realized that GCC has a very regular release schedule until looking it up just now: https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html
tosti•32m ago
IIRC, since GCC got covered by GPL3.
It used to be slower and I've spent way too much time working around C++ bugs in GCC 2.95
(The fact that I remember the problematic version is telling :)
gpderetta•25m ago
Everybody remembers that specific version :). And I wasn't even programming professionally at that time!
r2vcap•23m ago
Yeah, GCC’s recent major releases have been remarkably regular, much like Fedora’s spring releases, and their releases seem to fit into the same broader rhythm. Hint? Red Hat.
uyjulian•20m ago
It has been that way since people from Cygnus (now RedHat->IBM) reorganized the project
t-3•44m ago
tosti•32m ago
It used to be slower and I've spent way too much time working around C++ bugs in GCC 2.95
(The fact that I remember the problematic version is telling :)
gpderetta•25m ago
r2vcap•23m ago
uyjulian•20m ago