http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/62 <pre> 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 is a major release, containing substantial new functionality not available in GCC 4.6.x or previous GCC releases. GCC 4.7 features support for software transactional memory on selected architectures. The C++ compiler supports a bigger subset of the new ISO C++11 standard such as support for atomics and the C++11 memory model, non-static data member initializers, user-defined literals, alias-declarations, delegating constructors, explicit override and extended friend syntax. The C compiler adds support for more features from the new ISO C11 standard. GCC now supports version 3.1 of the OpenMP specification for C, C++ and Fortran. The link-time optimization (LTO) framework has seen improvements with regards to scalability, stability and resource needs. Inlining and interprocedural constant propagation have been improved. GCC 4.7 now supports various new GNU extensions to the DWARF debugging information format, like entry value and call site information, a typed DWARF stack and a more compact macro representation. Extending the widest support for hardware architectures in the industry, GCC 4.7 gains support for Adapteva's Epiphany processor, National Semiconductor's CR16, and TI's C6X as well as Tilera's TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. The x86 family support has been extended by the Intel Haswell and AMD Piledriver architectures. ARM has gained support for the Cortex-A7 family. See http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html for more information about changes in GCC 4.7. This release is available from the FTP servers listed here: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html The release is in gcc/gcc-4.7.0/ subdirectory. If you encounter difficulties using GCC 4.7, please do not contact me directly. Instead, please visit http://gcc.gnu.org for information about getting help. Driving a leading free software project such as GNU Compiler Collection would not be possible without support from its many contributors. Not to only mention its developers but especially its regular testers and users which contribute to its high quality. The list of individuals is too large to thank individually! </pre> Richard Guenther 2012-03-22T14:23:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/61 <pre>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! </pre> Jakub Jelinek 2012-03-13T13:40:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/60 <pre>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! </pre> Jakub Jelinek 2012-03-01T15:26:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/59 <pre>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! </pre> Jakub Jelinek 2011-10-27T17:51:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/58 <pre> 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! </pre> Richard Guenther 2011-06-28T13:05:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/57 <pre>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! </pre> Jakub Jelinek 2011-06-28T12:55:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/56 <pre>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! </pre> Jakub Jelinek 2011-04-18T12:08:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/55 <pre>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.html The release is in gcc/gcc-4.6.0/ subdirectory. If you encounter difficulties using GCC 4.6, please do not contact me directly. Instead, please visit http://gcc.gnu.org for information about getting help. As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC releases -- far too many to thank individually! </pre> Jakub Jelinek 2011-03-28T07:25:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/54 <pre> 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! </pre> Richard Guenther 2010-12-18T20:56:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/53 <pre>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! </pre> Jakub Jelinek 2010-10-03T13:04:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/52 <pre> 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! </pre> Richard Guenther 2010-08-08T08:46:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/51 <pre> 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! </pre> Richard Guenther 2010-05-30T16:57:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/50 <pre>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! </pre> Jakub Jelinek 2010-05-02T16:18:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/49 <pre> 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 "polyhedral" model for optimization, allows GCC to perform more advanced loop optimizations. In the future, this infrastructure will be tuned and used more heavily. GCC 4.5.0 also features improvements for a wide variety of specific architectures, including support for recent CPUs using the ARM, AVR, ColdFire, MIPS, Power, SuperH, and x86 architectures. GCC also generates better debug information for optimized code, including information about the value of variables that have been optimized away. And, of course, a wide variety of defects in all parts of the compiler (ranging from language conformance to code-generation) have been corrected. Refer to gcc.gnu.org: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html for more information about this release. GCC 4.5.1, with corrections for any critical defects reported in GCC 4.5.0, is expected in July, 2010. As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far too many to thank individually! -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery mark&lt; at &gt;codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713 </pre> Mark Mitchell 2010-04-18T23:01:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/48 <pre>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! </pre> Jakub Jelinek 2010-01-22T17:14:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.announce/47 <pre>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! </pre> Jakub Jelinek 2009-10-19T11:19:31 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gcc.announce