The GNU project and the GCC developers have announced the GCC 10.2 Release for general availability. This release is primarily a bug-fix release. It contains bug fixes also for regressions in GCC 10.1 relative to previous releases of GCC.
Here are a few of the major highlights that have come in this GCC release. In terms of new languages and language-specific improvements, version 2.6 of the OpenACC specification is now supported in the C, C++ and Fortran compilers.
There are a number of newly implemented OpenMP 5.0 features on top of the GCC 9 release. OpenMP and OpenACC now support offloading to AMD Radeon (GCN) GPUs.
One significant bug fix includes an ABI incompatibility between C++14 and C++17 has beeing fixed.
For these and more changes in the GCC 10.2 Release, you can check out the changes and new feature page here. You can now get information on the downloading and installation of this release here.
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