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March 01, 2006

GCC 4.1.0 Released

Posted: 2006-03-01 17:06:00
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GNU Compiler Collection 4.1.0 has been released. GCC is a portable compiler system including front-ends for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran and Ada, and supporting a variety of targets.

This release includes: infrastructure for inter-procedural optimizations, implementations of a number of inter-procedural optimizations, a value range propagation pass, improvements to the alias analysis, auto-vectorization enhancements, a new hand-written recursive descent parser to replace the old Bison-based C and Objective-C parser, Ada runtime library and tools build infrastructure integration improvements, Objective-C++ support, support for the MorphoSys architecture, support for emitting code to protect applications from stack-smashing attacks, security enhancements to some of the built-in functions, plus numerous other changes and bugfixes.