GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features

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."

Comments

ADA?

[Black Parrot]

"Ada" is the name of a person, and the language.

"ADA" is the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the American Dental Association.

Re:Coming in 1024 sometime?

[Greyfox]

2014 is just a month and a half away, and you can compile 4.9 now from the dev branch of their subversion tree.