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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, 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).

  3. 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.

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

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

  5. Let me know when GCC4 is available for MingW by jonwil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Big deal about all this GCC4 stuff, let me know when GCC 4.x becomes available for MingW as an official build (or better yet, when the GCC community stops treating Windows builds of GCC as second class citizens)