GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features

jones_supa writes "When GCC 4.9 is released in 2014 it will be coming in hot on new features with a large assortment of improvements and new functionality for the open-source compiler. Phoronix provides a recap of some of the really great features of this next major compiler release from the Free Software Foundation. For a quick list: OpenMP 4.0, Intel Cilk Plus multi-threading support, Intel Bay Trail and Silvermont support, NDS32 port, Undefined Behavior Sanitizer, Address Sanitizer, ADA and Fortran updates, improved C11 / C++11 / C++14, better x86 intrinsics, refined diagnostics output. Bubbling under are still: Bulldozer 4 / Excavator support, OpenACC, JIT compiler, disabling Java by default."

ADA?

[Black Parrot]

"Ada" is the name of a person, and the language.

"ADA" is the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the American Dental Association.

Re:Can we please stop mass-linking Phoronix?

[Anonymous Coward]

Self-linking is the modus operandi of Phoronix. It is a link farm, after all.

All you will get is a mass of links, whether you click through to TFA or not. At least this way there's no utility in clicking through.

Re:Coming in 1024 sometime?

[Greyfox]

2014 is just a month and a half away, and you can compile 4.9 now from the dev branch of their subversion tree.

Re:Looks like they are porting Clang features...

[Anonymous Coward]

The following quote is the complete text of the 2-clause BSD license (sans the disclaimer, which doesn't add anything relevant to this discussion). Note that it is this text which determines what is and isn't allowed to do with code using that license. I put the parts relevant for this discussion in bold.

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