KernelTrap - Mark Mitchell

GCC 4.2.2 Released

Jeremy — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:52:16 +0000

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.2.2 saying, "GCC 4.2.2 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.2.1 relative to previous GCC releases." He adds, "the compilers in this release are covered by GNU General Public License version 3," making GCC 4.2.2 the first released under the GPLv3.

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.2.2 from your nearest gcc.gnu.org mirror.

Tools: GCC 4.2.1 Released

Jeremy — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:58:40 +0000

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.2.1 saying, "GCC 4.2.1 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.2.0 relative to previous GCC releases." He went on to note that future versions of GCC will be released under a new license, "GCC 4.2.1 will be the last release of GCC covered by version 2 of the GNU General Public License. All future releases will be released under GPL version 3."

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.2.1 from your nearest gcc.gnu.org mirror.

Tools: GCC 4.2.0 Released

Jeremy — Wed, 16 May 2007 07:03:07 +0000

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.2 saying, "GCC 4.2.0 is a major release, containing new functionality not available in GCC 4.1.x or previous GCC releases." He then linked the GCC 4.2 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes document for more details as to what is new in this release.

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.2.0 from your nearest gcc.gnu.org mirror.

Tools: GCC 4.1.1

Jeremy — Fri, 26 May 2006 14:09:40 +0000

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.1.1 saying, "this release is a bug-fix release for problems in GCC [4.1.0]. GCC 4.1.1 contains changes to correct regressions from previous releases, but no new features." GCC 4.1.0 [story] was released 2 and a half months ago in March of 2006.

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.1.0 from a gcc.gnu.org mirror.

Tools: GCC 4.0.3

Jeremy — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:17:05 +0000

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.0.3. He explains, "this release is a bug-fix release for problems in GCC 4.0.2. GCC 4.0.3 contains changes to correct regressions from previous releases, but no new features." GCC 4.0.2 [story] was released nearly 6 months ago in September of 2005. GCC 4.1.0 [story] was released in early March of 2006.

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.0.3 from a gcc.gnu.org mirror.

Tools: GCC 4.1.0

Jeremy — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:32:17 +0000

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.1.0 saying, "this release is a major release, containing substantial new functionality relative to previous releases." Among the changes, new features and fixes listed for this new release series are a number of general optimizer improvements, language specific improvements, and some protection from stack-smashing attacks by providing buffer overflow detection and reordering of stack variables.

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.1.0 from a gcc.gnu.org mirror.

Tools: GCC 4.0.2

Jeremy — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:31:11 +0000

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.0.2. He explains, "this release is a minor release, containing primarily fixes for regressions in GCC 4.0.1 relative to previous releases." GCC 4.0.1 was release two and a half months ago on July 7th [story]. A list of bug fixes in 4.0.2 can be found here.

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.0.2 from a gcc.gnu.org mirror.

Tools: GCC 4.0.1

Jeremy — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:55:36 +0000

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.0.1, officially released on July 7'th. He explains, "this release is a minor release, containing primarily fixes for regressions in GCC 4.0.0 relative to previous releases." GCC 4.0.0 was released two and a half months ago on April 20th, as seen on the official release timeline. A list of bug fixes in 4.0.1 can be found here.

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.0.1 from a gcc.gnu.org mirror.

Tools: GCC 3.4.3

Jeremy — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:22:35 +0000

Mark Mitchell announced the release of GCC 3.4.3 saying, "there are no new features in this release, but there are a lot of improvements for various languages and architectures."