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May 31, 2013 17:11 GMT  ·  By

GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection that includes frontends for C, C++, Fortran, Objective-C, Java, Ada, and Go, has just reached version 4.8.1.

Highlights of GCC 4.8.1:

• The BACKTRACE intrinsic subroutine has been added; • The -Wc-binding-type warning option has been added and can be used to warn the user is a variable might not be C interoperable; • The -Wrealloc-lhs and -Wrealloc-lhs-all warning command-line options have been added; • Support has been added for unlimited polymorphic variables (CLASS(*)); • A preliminary version of the Go 1.1 release has been implemented; • Support has been added for Arch64, the new 64-bit architecture from ARM; • Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15 CPUs support has been implemented; • The -fstack-usage command-line option is now supported.

A complete version of the changelog can be found in the official announcement.

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