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GCC 3.1 Released

Posted by michael on from the it-slices-it-dices dept.

gergnz writes "Just popped into my inbox, GCC 3.1 released. There are many bug fixes over 3.0. "we focused more on quality than new features" Mark Michell. Here are the changes, and you can see a list of ftp servers here. This is the release I have been waiting for. I will now upgrade :-) Well Done to all involved!"

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  1. When.. by hackwrench · · Score: 2, Interesting

    will it be available in Cygwin...

  2. Re:GCC (any version) in a nutshell by morbid · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How did you get to be +1 Informative with a troll of this kind? GCC's code generator has improved in leaps and bounds recently. It may not generate the fastest code on all platforms, but it generates reliable code that is good enough. If you really are interested in performance, a little bit of profiling and clever coding goes a long way.

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  3. Trouble by 4of12 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    [Well, I won't dwell on my rejected submission for this.]

    But my attempt to build gcc 3.1 on sparc-sun-solaris2.8 gave me this problem:

    echo timestamp > s-check
    stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/
    -B/usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ -c
    -DIN_GCC -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings
    -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wtraditional -pedantic
    -Wno-long-long -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE -I. -I. -I../../gcc-3.1/gcc
    -I../../gcc-3.1/gcc/. -I../../gcc-3.1/gcc/config
    -I../../gcc-3.1/gcc/../include ../../gcc-3.1/gcc/p rint-rtl.c -o print-rtl.o
    In file included from
    ../../gcc-3.1/gcc/print-rtl.c:30:
    ../../gcc-3.1/gcc/tree.h:3183: stray '\273' in program
    ../../gcc-3.1/gcc/tree.h:3183: stray '\224' in program
    ../../gcc-3.1/gcc/tree.h:3183: stray '\315' in program
    ../../gcc-3.1/gcc/tree.h:3183: stray '\352' in program
    ../../gcc-3.1/gcc/tree.h:3183: stray '\274' in program
    ../../gcc-3.1/gcc/tree.h:3183: parse error before '&' token
    ../../gcc-3.1/gcc/tree.h:3183: stray '\246' in program
    ../../gcc-3.1/gcc/tree.h:3183: stray '\21' in program
    .
    .
    .
     [This went on for some while.]

    Any ideas?

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  4. Does it compile KDE? by JahToasted · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How is the C++ support now? I've been sticking with 2.95.x since 3.0 wasn't able to compile kde (i think it was the sound system it couldn't compile although I could be wrong). There was nothing wrong with the KDE code it was a problem with gcc3. So any word on whether c++ has been fixed? does the linker work properly or do we still have to use objprelink?

    I remember being optimistic about 3.0 only to be disapointed that it wouldn't compile kde.

  5. Re:Most Notable Improvements - export? by jungd · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does it implement export yet?
    I doubt it.

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  6. Re:GCC (any version) in a nutshell by L.+J.+Beauregard · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It seems that GCC generates rather simple-minded code and relies on the optimizer to make it fast. I've never had a GCC-compiled program that was not significantly faster when compiled with -O2.

    And if -O2 is not enough, well, that's what gprof and inline assembly is for. GCC's inline assembly feature is unmatched by any compiler I've ever seen (though Borland's register pseudovariable feature comes in handy if used carefully).

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  7. 8-bit register use on x86 ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Can code generated by this version of GCC use, say, registers AH and AL at the same time? I don't think GCC 2.x can do this.