gmane.comp.gcc.announce

GCC 4.7.0 Released

Richard Guenther — 2012-03-22T14:23:44

Today the GCC development team celebrates the 25th anniversary of the GNU
Compiler Collection.

When Richard Stallman announced the first public release of GCC in
1987, few could have imagined the broad impact that it has had.  It
has prototyped many language features that later were adopted as part
of their respective standards -- everything from "long long" type to
transactional memory. It deployed an architecture-neutral automatic
vectorization facility, OpenMP, and Polyhedral loop nest optimization.
It has provided the toolchain infrastructure for the GNU/Linux
ecosystem used everywhere from Google and Facebook to financial
markets and stock exchanges.  We salute and thank the hundreds
of developers who have contributed over the years to make
GCC one of the most long-lasting and successful free software projects
in the history of this industry.

As a special present we have prepared the release of GCC 4.7.0 which
continues the series of free software high-quality industry-standard
compilers.

GCC 4.7.0

GCC 4.4.7 Released

Jakub Jelinek — 2012-03-13T13:40:08

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.4.7 has been released.

GCC 4.4.7 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and serious
bugs in GCC 4.4.6.  This release marks the end of the maintainance of
the GCC 4.4 series.
This release is available from the FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.6.3 Released

Jakub Jelinek — 2012-03-01T15:26:08

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.6.3 has been released.

GCC 4.6.3 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and serious
bugs in GCC 4.6.2, with over 70 bugs fixed since previous release.  This
release is available from the FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.6.2 Released

Jakub Jelinek — 2011-10-27T17:51:35

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.6.2 has been released.

GCC 4.6.2 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and serious
bugs in GCC 4.6.1, with over 110 bugs fixed since previous release.  This
release is available from the FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.3.6 Released

Richard Guenther — 2011-06-28T13:05:50

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.3.6 has been released.

GCC 4.3.6 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and serious
bugs in GCC 4.3.5.  This release marks the end of the maintainance of
the GCC 4.3 series.

The release is available from the FTP servers listed at:

 http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.6.1 Released

Jakub Jelinek — 2011-06-28T12:55:28

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.6.1 has been released.

GCC 4.6.1 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and serious
bugs in GCC 4.6.0, with over 150 bugs fixed since previous release.  This
release is available from the FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.4.6 Released

Jakub Jelinek — 2011-04-18T12:08:08

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.4.6 has been released.

GCC 4.4.6 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and serious
bugs in GCC 4.4.5, with over 70 bugs fixed since previous release.  This
release is available from the FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.6.0 Released

Jakub Jelinek — 2011-03-28T07:25:57

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.6.0 has been released.

GCC 4.6.0 is a major release, containing substantial new functionality
not available in GCC 4.5.x or previous GCC releases.

The "link-time optimization" framework introduced in GCC 4.5.0 has been
significantly improved in this release, it is now possible to compile
very large applications like Mozilla or GCC itself with LTO.
GCC can now partially inline functions, inlining just hot short path
to exit and keeping the rest of the function out of line.
Support for the upcoming C++0x standard has been notably improved,
Fortran 2003 and 2008 has been greatly extended and many other frontends
undergone substantial changes as well.
Many other improvements have been added and more than thousand of bugs
have been fixed in various parts of the compiler collection.

See:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html

for more information about changes in GCC 4.6.0.

This release is available from the FTP servers listed here:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.htm

GCC 4.5.2 Released

Richard Guenther — 2010-12-18T20:56:54

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.5.2 has been released.

GCC 4.5.2 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and
serious bugs in GCC 4.5.1.  This release is available from the
FTP servers listed at:

 http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.4.5 Released

Jakub Jelinek — 2010-10-03T13:04:41

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.4.5 has been released.

GCC 4.4.5 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and
serious bugs in GCC 4.4.4.  This release is available from the
FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.5.1 Released

Richard Guenther — 2010-08-08T08:46:48

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.5.1 has been released.

GCC 4.5.1 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and
serious bugs in GCC 4.5.0.  This release is available from the
FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.3.5 Released

Richard Guenther — 2010-05-30T16:57:39

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.3.5 has been released.

GCC 4.3.5 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and
serious bugs in GCC 4.3.4.  This release is available from the
FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.4.4 Released

Jakub Jelinek — 2010-05-02T16:18:17

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.4.4 has been released.

GCC 4.4.4 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and
serious bugs in GCC 4.4.3.  This release is available from the
FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.5.0 Released

Mark Mitchell — 2010-04-18T23:01:49

The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
development team have released GCC 4.5.0.  This release is a major
upgrade to the compilers, with a particular focus on the performance
of the generated code.  The developers have measured performance
improvements of 5% to 10% on high-performance computing benchmarks.
(Of course, results vary depending on choice of CPU, benchmark, and
optimization options.)

GCC 4.5.0 is now capable of "link-time optimization".  Traditionally,
most C and C++ compilers (including GCC) have only been able to
optimize within a single source file or "module".  GCC was therefore
unable to take advantage of optimization opportunities that required
knowledge about multiple modules.  This limitation has been removed in
GCC 4.5.0.  This optimization can provide significant increases in
performance and equally significant reductions in code size.

In addition, GCC 4.5.0 has improved loop optimization infrastructure.
This infrastructure, based on an advanced "polyhedra

GCC 4.4.3 Released

Jakub Jelinek — 2010-01-22T17:14:26

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.4.3 has been released.

GCC 4.4.3 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and
serious bugs in GCC 4.4.2.  This release is available from the
FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!

GCC 4.4.2 Released

Jakub Jelinek — 2009-10-19T11:19:31

The GNU Compiler Collection version 4.4.2 has been released. 

GCC 4.4.2 is a bug-fix release containing fixes for regressions and
serious bugs in GCC 4.4.1.  This release is available from the
FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about
this release.  Instead, use the resources available from
http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far
too many to thank individually!