Comment Re:GPS? Are you kidding? (Score 1) 373
I'm not an expert on any compiler code, but I thought that gcc was actually comparatively new, as it used to be called "egcs", and was different from what used to be "gcc", and was a newer project. At some point, the gcc team decided to simply adopt egcs as the new gcc and dump the original as it was too old and crufty.
If you call 1997 new, then yes it was new. Except that egcs was based on a gcc snapshot.