The 2010, GCC Developer Summit

On October 25th–27th, 2010 this years GCC Developer Summit was held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Even if you don't develop GCC, and just use GCC you might find some of the papers and the proceedings of interest.

For example When smart programmers write bad code. John Regehr had an interesting paper: Exposing Difficult Compilers Bugs With Random Testing.

A couple of papers on Google's Go Language, which I keep wonder how well it could be made to work on Embedded Systems, as it has issues of concurrency designed into the language?

Check out the papers if you are interested in the internals of GCC, where GCC is headed, or how you might improve your own code when you use GCC.

"GCC - 'We make free software affordable'". A Short history of GCC.

Richard Hillesley has written a short and interesting history
of the GCC compiler, where its been, and where we might be going with LLVM.

For anyone that is interested in the history of computers, valuable background to understand how we got where we are today, the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition by Steven Levy is a *must read*.