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GCC 2.95 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the changes-anyone? dept.

sparky writes "The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 2.95 is available ."> here [Ed: Please use a mirror]. This is the first release of GCC since the EGCS steering committee took over, and a major step on the way to GCC 3.0. " Interesting to see we have a new ANC (acronym name change).

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  1. Kernel and GCC 2.95 by Kento · · Score: 5

    I was just reading the linux kernel mailing list (which i *just* resubscribed to) and apparently, the kernel won't compile correctly with gcc 2.95. Here's an excerpt:

    The linux kernel violates certain aliasing
    rules specified in the ANSI/ISO
    standard. Starting with GCC 2.95, the gcc
    optimizer by default relies on these
    rules to produce more efficient code and thus
    will produce malfunctioning
    kernels. To work around this
    problem, the flag -fno-strict-aliasing must be
    added to the CFLAGS variable in
    the main kernel Makefile.

    Disclaimer: I haven't downloaded the new compiler and so I haven't tried it yet, but keep this in mind when you upgrade gcc.