That's beautiful. It may be a monster, but it started so small in 1992 - then wa...

asveikau · on July 2, 2014

It was 16 lines in 1992. I guess that's not what it is today, but not exactly "so small". https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/42c63e4d48cfac192be8c0cc...

The copyright notice goes back to '87. I wonder if '92 is just where the source control kicks in.

LukeShu · on July 2, 2014

I thinks that's just when the source control kicks in.

DannyBee claims that reload was started in the late 80s.

There are commits going back to 1988, but it looks like a lot of the early commits are out of order; the repository was (at least) converted from RCS to CVS to SVN to Git.