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Looking At Changes In the Newest GCC

Posted by timothy on from the keeping-abreast dept.

cyberpead writes "With GCC 4 comes a new optimization framework (and new intermediate code representation), new target and language support, and a variety of new attributes and options. Get to know the major new features and their benefits in this article."

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  1. They've optimized it so much... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That they were able to reduce it down to just one C. Now it's just GC.

  2. Re:Umm, gcc 4 was released 2 years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You missed one of the largest improvements in the four series was time travel. This article was actually published two years ago.

    The Slashdot team are now frantically searching for the wormhole in their office. This is also why there are so many dupes, articles keep popping down GCC invoked wormholes.

    Really, Stallman is just messing with us for modding-up comments like this one.

  3. Re:Just taking his time I guess by Doug+Neal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously! From TFA:

    With all of that, you'd think I was truly enamored with GCC. Let's just say that when I'm developing software with GCC and my wife walks into the room, I feel a little uncomfortable.

    Yeah, GCC 4 has more backends, the little slut.