GCC 4.5.0 Compiler Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC 4.5.0 Compiler Released

Version 4.5 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) was running behind with too many regressions being left open, but only a few weeks ago they cleared their P1 regressions and then put out the GCC 4.5 release candidate. Now, already, GCC 4.5 has been officially released...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODE1Ng

[MùPùF]

Phoronix: GCC 4.5.0 Compiler Released

Version 4.5 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) was running behind with too many regressions being left open, but only a few weeks ago they cleared their P1 regressions and then put out the GCC 4.5 release candidate. Now, already, GCC 4.5 has been officially released...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODE1Ng

Hey! Your forgot to tell about the LTO (link-time optimisation) and the plugin support. These are really the most important changes (in my opinion).

Nice to have an article about it here anyway Keep up the good work!

[XorEaxEax]

Yes, LTO is definately the big one this release (particularly since llvm's LTO is only available on the OSX platform). Then we have Graphite, although it was already in 4.4, it was bare-bones and has now been enhanced considerably. Also plugin support has great potential (like llvm's DragonEgg). I'm surprised myself at how fast the gcc 4.5 release came out, here's hoping llvm 2.7 get's past it's critical bugs and releases soon aswell.

[MùPùF]

Yes, LTO is definately the big one this release (particularly since llvm's LTO is only available on the OSX platform). Then we have Graphite, although it was already in 4.4, it was bare-bones and has now been enhanced considerably. Also plugin support has great potential (like llvm's DragonEgg). I'm surprised myself at how fast the gcc 4.5 release came out, here's hoping llvm 2.7 get's past it's critical bugs and releases soon aswell.

At the moment, I'm more interested in clang getting a good c++ support than any improvement on the LLVM side. It's just the classic statement: Make it work and then make it fast )

[XorEaxEax]

Yes I hear you, but making a c++ frontend is hard and it takes time. Meanwhile DragonEgg gives more options to those who wants to use llvm's optimizer rather than gcc's.

[MùPùF]

Yes I hear you, but making a c++ frontend is hard and it takes time. Meanwhile DragonEgg gives more options to those who wants to use llvm's optimizer rather than gcc's.

you're right, let's use gcc's frontend while using LLVM as a backend.

I'm gonna need to do performance tests!