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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:Quality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No because GCC is reacting to what Clang does and Clang is still choosing which existing optimizations to enable at which -O levels. Don't expect any improvements of any consequence from either GCC or Clang, while they're still competing over what colors their error messages should be, because hipster coderz these days are so incredibly dumb that colored error messages are seriously important fashion statements that they actually care about. The clangy-gee-see-see rivalry is laughably idiotic.