The Free Software Foundation compiler team has announced the release of GCC 6.1. The release comes timely and marks the start of the Version 6 series.<\/p>\n
GCC or GNU Compiler Collection is basically a bunch of open source front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java and Ada. It also includes respective development libraries.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest and most notable change in GCC 6.1 is that the default mode for C++ is now -std=gnu++14 or C++14. C++ Concepts are now optionally supported.<\/p>\n
There are quite a number of optimizer improvements such as strict checking of array bounds. Value range propagation now assumes that the this pointer of C++ member functions is non-null therefore breaking non-conforming code in Qt 5, Chromium and KDevelop.<\/p>\n
Again there are improvements in OpenACC which is a collection of compiler directives to specify loops and regions of code in C, C++ and Fortran to be offloaded from a host CPU to an attached GPU or other accelerator.<\/p>\n
Some support for older ARM and MeP architectures are ow deprecated while AArch64 support has been improved. There is also now support for the Intel CPU Skylake architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n
To get the whole detailed list of changes in GCC 6.1 you can visit the official changelog<\/a> and get the details. You can download the latest version from the official mirrors page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Free Software Foundation compiler team has announced the release of GCC 6.1. The release comes timely and marks the start of the Version 6 series. GCC or GNU Compiler…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[111,143,184,267,350,433,449,472,544,545,563,591],"yoast_head":"\n