gcc users

[TimoVJL]

Just polling users in this forum 
How many users use gcc ?
How many gcc users understand how gcc works ?
How big gcc is and what modules it use ?
What is benefits of using gcc ?
Are using any drugs ?
Are you belief any some kind of god ?
Are you still using gcc ?
Is this some kind of joke ?
Yes it is!

[Stefan Pendl]

Didn't know that Finnish guys are that funny, thought they are more frosty in Winter

[Bitbeisser]

Didn't know that Finnish guys are that funny, thought they are more frosty in Winter

Just a futile way trying to stay warm, I guess... 

As to the original "poll":

How many users use gcc ?

Don't know, I use it (in some sorts) on systems that don't have any better/more sane alternative available

How many gcc users understand how gcc works ?

I think that I pretty much understand this, can't speak for other users though... 

How big gcc is and what modules it use ?

Yup

What is benefits of using gcc ?

Are using any drugs ?

No

Are you belief any some kind of god ?

No

Are you still using gcc ?

See above

Ralf 

[TimoVJL]

Just bare gcc C 4.8 compiler is about 40 MB now ?
Not long ago 3.4 was about 12 MB ?

[Bitbeisser]

Just bare gcc C 4.8 compiler is about 40 Mb now ?
Not long ago 3.4 was about 12 Mb ?

Not quite sure how you are counting this, but the "bare" gcc from my Arduino setup is 207KB for each AVR and ARM targets...

Ralf

[frankie]

First of all consider that GCC original meaning has changed from 'Gnu C Compiler' to 'Gnu Compilers Collection'.
GCC is truly a collection of different compilers, when you download the actual version you get a sw able to compile  C (gcc), C++ (g++), Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran (gfortran), Java (gcj), Ada (GNAT), and Go (gccgo) (from release 4.6).
Consider also that the package includes even the target-specific backend code generators and the libraries for specifc machine or other systems different from the development system.
In fact GCC is a 'cross-compiling system', able to produce from a development station code that will run on almost all processors and OS's.
Than there is the linker also able to link for all code formats and systems.
A customized version, like the Arduino compiler could be, would include one language compiler (tipically C), one code backend generator and a simplified linker.
For a short description see this.

[TimoVJL]

"bare gcc C compiler" just that.

[frankie]

If for GCC 4.8.1

Disk space requirement: 500MB for the source and ~2.1GB for the compiled files. About 3GB space will be needed for the temporary files when compiling.

40Mb is reasonable 

Actually GCC is wrote in C++ so takes a lot of crap with it!

[TimoVJL]

If for GCC 4.8.1
40Mb is reasonable 

Oops
PellesC v7: pocc.exe 2 MB ARM x86 x64
MSVC 18: cl.exe + c1.dll + c2.dll 4.8 MB x86
gcc 4.8.1: gcc.exe cc1.exe as.exe ... 15.3 MB x86
and ld.exe + LTO > 12 MB

[bitcoin]

I use gcc to writing hello world examples. Because GCC can build EXE with zero-runtime, unlike MSVC (this shit putting anywhere CRT).
And GCC have many interesting plugins.

[TimoVJL]

Most of C compilers can create a zero or minimal crt applications.
Only compiler support routines have to give somehow, like some sort of crtmin.lib and msvc isn't an exception.
Sometimes gcc needs an additional __main() stub.
gcc and polink

EDIT: gcc 7 and 8 has a bug with .drectve, wrong Characteristics in object-file:
Characteristics   
      00000040   IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA
      00300000   IMAGE_SCN_ALIGN_4BYTES
      40000000   IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ
      80000000   IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE

should be:
Characteristics   
      00000200   IMAGE_SCN_LNK_INFO
      00000800   IMAGE_SCN_LNK_REMOVE

So with polink.exe use -merge:.drectve=.rdata