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It's not completely arbitrary. Notice that they said "the last C GCC". After that version, GCC started using C++ in the compiler itself. I can see why some peop
by mwcampbell 5y ago
It's not completely arbitrary. Notice that they said "the last C GCC". After that version, GCC started using C++ in the compiler itself. I can see why some people would see that as a complexity line that must not be crossed, as it makes bootstrapping harder.
- arghwhat 5y agoWhat GCC is written in only matters if you intent to write your own compiler to compile it - which as you have no compiler yet would likely have to be written in assembly. Otherwise you need to download a prebuilt compiler anyway, and whether that is C11 or C++11 is rather unimportant.