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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."

3 of 181 comments (clear)

  1. Finish C++11 support first? by joncombe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I see from the status page the Regex support is still not complete, part of the C++11 standard. It would be nice if support for this standard could be completed before starting on C++14.

  2. Re:A big improvement indeed by DuckDodgers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, it is not. But GCJ Java-to-native compiling didn't result in particularly fast Java code. That's one of the major reasons developers and enterprises ignored GCJ in the first place.

  3. Thank you, Clang by Urkki · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Clang has really become a boon to open source compiler development. Unlike the open source *BSD operating systems, which are too far behind the GPL operating systems in many measures (not all), Clang has really electrified the compiler scene.

    I see nothing but good things coming from this in near future.

    And in such a rapidly evolving area as compiler development, having a *BSD license does not really hurt either. It's not like the *compiler* is likely to get put into some device with proprietary modifications.