A lot of fixes and new features have been added in the latest version

Apr 11, 2013 19:01 GMT  ·  By

GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection that includes frontends for C, C++, Fortran, Objective-C, Java, Ada, and Go, has just reached version 4.7.3.

Highlights of GCC 4.7.3:

• The -fconserve-space flag has been deprecated because it had no effect on most targets; • A number of older systems and recently unmaintained or untested target ports of GCC are now obsolete; • A new option called -munaligned-access is now active by default on the ARM platform; • All code has to be compiled with -mno-unaligned-access; • The support for the Maverick co-processor on ARM has been removed; • The support for the Solaris BSD Compatibility Package has been removed; • A new parameter called --param case-values-threshold=n was added.

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

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