Open Watcom v1.8 has been released. Open Watcom is an open-source continuation of the Watcom C, C++ and Fortran compilers.
This release includes: stricter type checking on C enumerated types, improved C compiler support for detecting functions that do not return, C compiler support for compiling larger and more complex source files, improved and new C and C++ compiler warnings, C++ compiler support for the explicit specification of function template arguments, C++ compiler support for the lazy instantiation of class templates and template members, C++ compiler bug fixes, Fortran compiler fixes and improvements, library improvements, Linux support for the Fortran run time libraries, debugging-related improvements, linker improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.
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