GCC 3.3 Released

devphil writes "The latest version of everyone's favorite compiler, GCC 3.3, was released today. New features, bugfixes, and whatnot, are all available off the linked-to page. (Mirrors already have the tarballs.) Let the second-guessing begin!"

woo!

[KrON]

mmm i'll install this one only cuz it rhymes ;)

this is all well and good

[Anonymous Coward]

..but when will Linux get a decent IDE?

This is why I stick to coding for Win32 - Visual Studio is an absolute joy to use.

Windows - developer friendly. Linux - developer hostile.

Be careful

[swagr]

I'm waiting for SCO to show it's copied code before I pick up any GNU software.

Re:slower than the last release....

[gazbo]

Sir, as the chairman for The Society of Prevention of Apostrophe Abuse, I must herby report your post's heinous abuse in the "word" wan<deleted>t. Expect a letter from our solicitors very soon.

Re:Two things I don't understand.

[Anonymous Coward]

It refers to varargs.h only. If you want variadic functions, you should use the standard header stdargs.h. If you're still using varargs.h you should be hit with a large boot.

Re:Two things I don't understand.

[torpor]

Gotcha.

I guess I thought this meant I couldn't write code like this anymore:

#define BIGLONGSTRING "AAAAAAAA" \
"BBBBBBBBBB" \
"CCCCCCCC" \
"DDDDDDD"

But that seems to not be the case.

Thanks for the explanation.

Re:this is all well and good

[BigBadBri]

Flamebait?

Nah.

Funny as hell, though - Visual Studio is an absolute joy to use.

Compared to what?

Having your head nailed to a table?

Re:Another one? WHY?!!!

[Gothmolly]

Read the parent post as:

I don't understand anything about C coding or systems programming, can you please let me bury my head back in the sand so that I can just run D:\setup.exe and load my gamez?!

I don't have a life

[Per Abrahamsen]

thus, I can follow the development list.

Re:slower than the last release....

[Anonymous Coward]

Expect a letter from our solicitors very soon.

Soliciting is illegal in the US, except for some counties in Nevada. Usually they spell it out on the arrest warrent, like so: ``soliciting for prostitution''.

Re:Hmph

[HopeOS]

I am reminded of a document describing how compilers are like women and assemblers like men. Googled for it, but didn't find it.

The line I remembered was "things you've been doing for years that seemed OK are now suddenly wrong." I consider myself a pretty astute programmer, but every new compiler version seem to have some new warning to add.

As a result, I consider my relationship with my compiler no less volatile than that with my wife. Keeps me on my toes anyway.

-HopeOS