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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:Biggest boon to GCC: lack of hackability by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

    People are flocking to CLANG for a variety of reasons. A large part seems to be because for some reason the GNU tools have become deeply unfashionable.

    LLVM has some structural advantages (due to being youger), but despite that all, GCC is comfortable keeping ahead of CLANG in both the optermizer and C++ support, so it cant be that bad.

    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.

    RMS is but one voice on the steering committee. He can say what he wants (and does), but the committee doesn't have to listen.

    That sad, when taking the long term into account, his whacky ranting and raving has the sad tendency to come true.

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