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GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-almost-2014 dept.

noahfecks writes "It seems that the GCC developers are taking steps to roll out significant improvements after CLANG became more competitive. 'Among the highlights to look forward to right now with GCC 4.9 are: The Undefined Behavior Sanitizer has been ported to GCC; Ada and Fortran have seen upgrades; Improved C++14 support; RX100, RX200, and RX600 processor support; and Intel Silvermont hardware support.'"

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  1. Biggest boon to GCC: lack of hackability by gentryx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...which is exactly why some folks are flocking to CLANG. Sure, not everyone wants to extend/modify his compiler, but actively preventing people from reusing your code isn't exactly what you should do if you want to keep a community thriving.

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  2. Irony not lost on me by tuppe666 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...which is exactly why some folks are flocking to CLANG.

    No Apple is pushing CLANG for exactly the reason that they want to use BSD license in a take not give fashion...how hackable is it; Xcode(SDK) will only work on Mac OS X. Looking forward to proprietary extensions :)

    On a side note wasting my time to by providing a link that neither promotes your conclusion or your facts its derived from is offensive.

    The irony is not lost on me that you do this in response to an article where GCC continues to move forward at a breakneck pace.