GCC Update Brings More Than 100 Bug-Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC Update Brings More Than 100 Bug-Fixes

The GNU Compiler Collection 4.7.1 release is available as of this morning...

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

[chris200x9]

Hopefully now 4.7 will get un-hardmasked in gentoo soon, I have a trinity notebook arriving in about a week and want 4.7's awesome bulldozer optimizations.

[mirv]

Hopefully now 4.7 will get un-hardmasked in gentoo soon, I have a trinity notebook arriving in about a week and want 4.7's awesome bulldozer optimizations.

Could always unmask it - if you don't need anything listed in the 4.7 tracker. I'm going to take that dive myself in a few days, mostly because I want the extra C++11 support.

[curaga]

I was waiting for the .1 release too, for I hear LTO is finally stable and usable for most things.

[bachinchi]

117 bugs.

(char limitation)

[curaga]

Seems to be working so far, but generates far bigger code with -Os and only gets back to equivalent-sized binaries compared to 4.2 with -flto.

[FireBurn]

Hopefully now 4.7 will get un-hardmasked in gentoo soon, I have a trinity notebook arriving in about a week and want 4.7's awesome bulldozer optimizations.

There's still a number of packages that simply don't compile with gcc-4.7 until these are fixed it's unlikely it'll be hard unmasked