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GCC 4.1 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the compile-that-compiler dept.

Luineancaion writes "Looks like GCC 4.1 has been released. From what I know this includes the GNU Classpath merge and means that Azureus can now be used in a 100% Free-Software system. Thanks to everyone that worked on it, and keep up the good work!"

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  1. Re:Changelog? by Yotsuya · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google to the rescue.

    http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.1/changes.html

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    Claude Angers
  2. Actually, it's not released yet by Dan+Berlin · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not sure what gave the person who submitted the story, or the editor who posted the story, the idea that 4.1 was released, but it isn't. In fact, it was just branched less than a week ago. We haven't even put out an RC yet! Really, it's not out. When it is, you will see something sent to gcc-announce

  3. Re:But... by strider44 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You're making too much of this. Between 4.0 and 4.1 isn't that big-a change. The only reason why it took so long for many distros to move between 3.3 and 3.4/4.0 was the change in the binary interface between the compilers. In other words a program compiled with 4.0 couldn't link to a library compiled with 3.3. There isn't this restriction between 4.0 and 4.1 so there's no reason why it can't go into the repositories straight after testing.

  4. Re:Home depot by Lisandro · · Score: 5, Informative

    GCC is an impressive piece of software - either considered asopen source or in general. A lot of people preffer more "serious" C/C++ compilers, like Intels', but it's a remarkably good compiler by itself, very fast, produces stable and well optimized code AND it is available for every platform you could dream of developing on. Ah, and constantly improving support for other languages (specially Java) is a nice perk aswell :)

        It's safe to say that if we have a healthy OSS community, is because of the great developing tools available on OSS platforms. GCC is a strong contender for that crown, IMHO.

  5. Still not released by lancelott · · Score: 5, Informative

    GCC 4.1.0 is not yet out as far as I know. This story is misleading. Just because the site lists 4.1.0 on the front does not mean it is out. Notice that it doesn't have a release date on it.

  6. Some minor corrections ... by ghakko · · Score: 5, Informative

    GCC 4.1 has not been released yet.

    A modified version of Classpath has been included with GCJ since 3.2.

    Azureus may start in GIJ 4.0, but won't work properly because it relies on parts of the Sun JDK which aren't completely implemented yet in GCJ.