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GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features

Posted by timothy on from the holy-linkage-batman dept.

jones_supa writes "When GCC 4.9 is released in 2014 it will be coming in hot on new features with a large assortment of improvements and new functionality for the open-source compiler. Phoronix provides a recap of some of the really great features of this next major compiler release from the Free Software Foundation. For a quick list: OpenMP 4.0, Intel Cilk Plus multi-threading support, Intel Bay Trail and Silvermont support, NDS32 port, Undefined Behavior Sanitizer, Address Sanitizer, ADA and Fortran updates, improved C11 / C++11 / C++14, better x86 intrinsics, refined diagnostics output. Bubbling under are still: Bulldozer 4 / Excavator support, OpenACC, JIT compiler, disabling Java by default."

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  1. frist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    finally

    1. Re:frist by StripedCow · · Score: 5, Funny

      finally

      C++0x does not have "finally".
      You'll have to implement it yourself, e.g. using a destructor.
      See for example: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/2864/an-implementation-of-finally-in-c0x

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      If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
  2. Re:A big improvement indeed by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

    I care. Or I will, in 5 years, when it's finally available in debian.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  3. Re:A big improvement indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Maybe you guys should form a club, so the rest of us can identify the special beings walking among us.

    http://www.openbsd.org

    there you go.