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GCC 4.0.0 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the funrolled-loops dept.

busfahrer writes "Version 4.0.0 of the GNU Compiler Collection has been released. You can read the changelog or you can download the source tarball. The new version finally features SSA for trees, allowing for a completely new optimization framework." The changelog is pretty lengthy, and there's updates for every language supported from Ada to Java in addition to the usual flavors of C.

3 of 680 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Moving fast by JohnsonWax · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apple wasn't working on GCC until version 3. I suspect a lot of other companies weren't either.

  2. Autovectorization by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Correct me if I'm wrong here, but most Linux distributions are still i386 right? It's only the people who use Gentoo who actually compile everything with i686 options right? So, if autovectorization and all the other improvements in GCC 4.0 make binaries massively faster on modern platforms, how long will it be before the major binary based distributions (like Ubuntu) start making i686 the default and i386 an available alternative (like AMD64 is now).

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  3. Readme.SCO by karvind · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The gcc tar ball has a README.SCO file (reproduced below)

    The GCC team has been urged to drop support for SCO Unix from GCC, as a protest against SCO's irresponsible aggression against free software and GNU/Linux. We have decided to take no action at this time, as we no longer believe that SCO is a serious threat.

    For more on the FSF's position regarding SCO's attacks on free software, please read:

    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sco/sco.html