This latest version is just a simple bug fix release

Oct 27, 2011 15:31 GMT  ·  By

GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection which includes front ends for C, C++, Fortran, Objective-C, Java, Ada, and Go has just reached version 4.6.2.

Just a few months ago, GCC 4.6.1 brought  a substantial update, such as general optimizer improvements, a better compile time and memory usage improvements, new languages and language specific improvements.

There were some good news for Android apps developers, as GCC 4.6.1 provides support for the Bionic C library, offering an easy way of building native Android applications and libraries.

GCC 4.6.2 is only a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.6.1 relative to previous releases of GCC.

The most important fix is that G++ now implements the proposed resolution of [10]DR 253, so default initialization is allowed if it initializes all subobjects. Code that fails to compile can be fixed by providing an initializer.

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