Re: C++ version for GCC development

[Abdullah Siddiqui <siddiquiabdullah92@gmail.com>]

Hello Gabriel.

Thank you for the confirmation.

Regards,
Abdullah.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 9:21 PM Gabriel Ravier, <gabravier@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>