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		pjmlp on June 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I Came to Write D (2014) Ah you mean gcc, the compiler that everyone ignored until Sun started the trend of UNIX vendors to charge for their compilers.

jnbiche on June 6, 2018 [–]

GPL's runtime isn't GPL, it's got the runtime exception:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.en.html

jnbiche on June 6, 2018 | [–]

Sorry, I meant GCC's runtime isn't GPL.

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