[M3devel] FW: GCC 4.8.0 Released

[Jay K]

Perhaps we should use this. I'm more inclined to work on the C backend though.  - Jay > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:44:59 +0100
> From: jakub at redhat.com
> To: gcc-announce at gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: GCC 4.8.0 Released
> 
> Exactly one year after the last major GCC release has been announced,
> celebrating the 26th anniversary of the GNU Compiler Collection,
> the GCC development team announces a new major GCC release, 4.8.0.
> 
> GCC 4.8.0 is a major release containing substantial new
> functionality not available in GCC 4.7.x or previous GCC releases.
> 
> GCC 4.8 features a new Local Register Allocator which replaces the 26 
> years old reload pass and improves generated code quality on ia32 and 
> x86-64 targets.  The C++ frontend and standard library have been
> enhanced with various improvements for C++11 support not limited to C++11
> attribute syntax, thread_local or inheriting constructors support.
> 
> AddressSanitizer and ThreadSanitizer instrumentation have been
> added to detect heap, stack and global buffer overflows, uses after free
> and data races.
> 
> Many scalability bottle-necks have been removed from GCC optimization 
> passes, thus it is now possible to compile extremely large functions with 
> smaller memory consumption in less time.
> 
> Extending the widest support for hardware architectures in the industry, 
> GCC 4.8 has gained support for the upcoming 64-bit ARM instruction set 
> architecture, AArch64.  GCC 4.8 also features support for Hardware 
> Transactional Memory on the upcoming Intel Haswell CPU architecture.
> The S/390 target now supports the zEC12 architecture.  The ARM 32-bit
> target has gained support for AArch32 ARM v8 ISA additions.
> 
> See
> 
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html
> 
> for more information about changes in GCC 4.8.
> 
> This release is available from the FTP servers listed here:
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
> 
> The release is in gcc/gcc-4.8.0/ subdirectory.
> 
> If you encounter difficulties using GCC 4.8, please do not contact me
> directly.  Instead, please visit http://gcc.gnu.org for information
> about getting help.
> 
> 
> Driving a leading free software project such as GNU Compiler Collection
> would not be possible without support from its many contributors.
> Not to only mention its developers but especially its regular testers
> and users which contribute to its high quality.  The list of individuals
> is too large to thank individually!
 		 	   		  
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