Re: C++ version for GCC development

[Gabriel Ravier <gabravier@gmail.com>]

On 2/8/22 01:17, Abdullah Siddiqui via Gcc-help wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> Thank you for the clarification.
>
> Can I still refer to the code in the GitHub repo for the latest source code
> of GCC or is it obsolete?

Although the repository is unofficial, it does appear to be up to date 
with GCC's git repository (although perhaps with a few minutes/hours of 
delay, but that shouldn't be a problem for most purposes).

> Waiting for your reply.
>
> Regards,
> Abdullah.
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 6:35 PM Jonathan Wakely, <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 23:04, Abdullah Siddiqui <
>> siddiquiabdullah92@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Jonathan.
>>>
>>> Thank you for the quick response.
>>>
>>> I got 14% from the following GitHub page:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc
>>>
>>> Am I not looking at the correct source for the GCC source code?
>>>
>> That's an unofficial mirror that's nothing to do with the GCC project, but
>> it does have a copy of the right sources. Those numbers are wrong though.
>> It counts several .h and .C files as C when they are C++. It's a rough
>> estimate based on simple heuristics done automatically by GitHub. The true
>> number is higher.
>>
>> It also looks like they haven't updated those numbers since April last
>> year, so it will wrongly count all .c files as C even the ones which
>> contain C++ instead. A huge number of files were renamed from .c to .cc
>> recently, because they contain C++ and so had a misleading .c extension.
>> That doesn't seem to be accounted for in those numbers.
>>
>>
>>