On 9/22/25 9:25 AM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) via Gcc wrote:
On 20/09/2025 15:15, Mark Wielaard wrote:
Maybe someone else has other/older releases? Or maybe they can be
reconstructed from git, svn, cvs or rcs files?
I don't think so. The git history that far back is very incomplete. In the
early days of gcc development, I think history was kept by using emacs revision
files (copies of the source with a version number (a bit like VMS). When there
were too many copies and it seemed like there would be no need to revert a
change the older ones were simply deleted.
Absolutely correct. Unless someone happens to have a tarball or backup
tapes from the old "mole" system at the FSF, odds are that history is
lost forever.
jeff
