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

    But most developers still do not know the important differences between 4.x and 3.x other than the superficial ones like changes in headers that need to be included(ie stuff that breaks their code). For example, few seem to be aware that GCC does profile guided optimization now with -fprofile-generate and -fprofile-use switches(not even mentioned in the article).

  2. Re:gcc 4 is "new"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wouldn't it be more logical to start supporting C++ 98 first?