I've never heard of it doing rm -rf, but apparnetly it did try to launch nethack under certain unknown preprocessor conditions:

https://feross.org/gcc-ownage/?1?1

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2002-January/074450.html

Back in the day, a GHC release had a bug that deleted source files with errors in them: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/163. Which is pretty harsh as diagnostics go.

Are you thinking of how early releases of GCC would (as an easter egg) run emacs, hack, or rogue upon encountering an unknown #pragma directive?

https://blog.djmnet.org/2008/08/05/a-pragmatic-decision/