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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. Re:4.8.2 is not even 2 weeks old by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's your point? 4.8.2 is the second bugfix/stabilization release of 4.8.0 which was released in March this year. Should they stop releasing bug fixes as soon as they start developing the next generation compiler? Should they refrain from any new developments until the old version has proven to be bug free?

    What's wrong with continuing development that will likely result in a new version release next year?

  2. Re:GCC still has a long way to go... by loufoque · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As a member of both the C and C++ standards committees, and as a CEO of a company that sells C++ libraries to businesses for high-performance computing, I have to disagree with you.

    The Oracle/Sun and IBM compilers are the worst C++ compilers available.
    Intel is also pretty bad, despite touting good standards conformance and being designed for runtime speed, it deals very badly with abstraction penalties, and is extremely slow to compile.
    Microsoft's compiler is also pretty bad, both at compilation speed, standards conformance, and runtime speed, with each new version introducing quirks and regressions (they have acknowledged major codegen regressions in the recent releases and are investigating them)

    If you want a good C++ compiler, GCC or Clang are the only tools available.