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AFAIK gcc is not the best designed program in the world (I just compiled it once, and to me it seemed to be a huge bunch of patches over patches).

At the same time I know C++ enough to consider it extremely error-prone, expecially if not managed correctly!

Put together the two things and ...maybe it's time to have a look to some other compiler. What about TCC? :P

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...or LLVM :-P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Level_Virtual_Machine

"The Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) is a compiler infrastructure, written in C++, which is designed for compile-time, link-time, run-time, and "idle-time" optimization of programs written in arbitrary programming languages. "

I am hoping LLVM / clang actually give GCC some competition. I like the direction of using the same code for the compiler in tools.

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