GCC 4.8 release

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html

by Marat_Dukhan • 13 years ago

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Actually only the release candidate of GNU GCC 4.8 is released. The final release is expected in about a week or so: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-03/msg00127.html

shared4you• 13 years ago

Oh well, this release page has been up for months! Please consider changing the title to "GCC 4.8 upcoming changes" or something like that. I got confused that 4.8 was released today!

Like already pointed out, 4.8 is not yet released!

jlgreco2• 13 years ago

It seems what happened today is:

  The GCC 4.8 branch has been created and a first release candidate
  is being prepared right now.  The branch is closed for now.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-03/msg00124.html

wereHamster• 13 years ago

"As of this time no releases of GCC 4.8 have yet been made" (http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/).

Marat_Dukhan• 13 years ago

Sorry for confusing you. I watch this page almost every day, and since today they moved the gcc 4.8 from "Development" to "Release Series" section, I decided that it is finally released.

ciupicri4• 13 years ago

GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language.

It looks like C++ is getting some traction. BIND has also made the switch to C++ (and Python).

stefantalpalaru• 13 years ago

Isn't it just the subset compatible with C for now?

ciupicri4• 13 years ago

This means that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++ compiler that understands C++ 2003.

mpyne3• 13 years ago

That's what it was for a couple of years, but now they've flipped the switch to where a C++03 compiler will actually be required.

Note this is drastically different from a requirement to use advanced C++, coders can still use the subset of "C style" C++ if that's easier for them.

fafner• 13 years ago

No, they use real C++ features. I noticed it when trying to compile a plugin and it suddenly failed to build.

tobinfricke• 13 years ago

> It looks like C++ is getting some traction

That's some LOL-worthy understatement right there.

adamnemecek5• 13 years ago

He's probably talking about FOSS projects where C++ is still very uncool.

nathell• 13 years ago

Especially with the C++ change, GCC seems to be on the verge of crashing in under its own weight. I have the feeling that clang or something else, something simpler, will eventually prevail.

groovy2shoes• 13 years ago

Clang and LLVM are written in C++...

sambe• 13 years ago

I can't be sure, but I don't think that was the point of the parent. The comment was with respect to the change, not a criticism of the language.

mpyne3• 13 years ago

Oh don't tell anyone that, otherwise they'll switch to PCC. Besides, obviously a program that poorly reimplements half of the STL is going to be smaller than one that uses even the barest amount of C++.

DannyBee• 13 years ago

It's more correct to say that GCC is compilable with a C++ compiler, and now allows C++. It's not like it was all rewritten in proper C++ between 4.7 and now :)

KPe118• 13 years ago

Nice! Could someone plz explain to me what it's not technically easy to have the ASan profiler also on windows? In other words, do you prefer other OSes for development due to tools like ASan?

Thanks

oakwhiz• 13 years ago

The new AVR enhancements are interesting. They added Embedded C fixed-point arithmetic. I wonder how often Arduino folks will use this.

turtlepower• 13 years ago

They had me at -Og.

edwintorok• 13 years ago

The -fsanitize=address and -fsanitize=thread sound like a very useful feature too, a nice complement to valgrind and -fmudflap.

GCC 4.8 release

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