GCC 8.1 Compiler Released As The First Stable GCC8, Brings Many Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC 8.1 Compiler Released As The First Stable GCC8, Brings Many Improvements

Version 8.1 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) was released today as the major update for the year of this important free software compiler...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-8.1-Released

[hubicka]

Official page listing changes & new features is https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/changes.html

[pipe13]

Any reason they couldn't have delayed Fedora 28 a week for this?

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[pal666]

Any reason they couldn't have delayed Fedora 28 a week for this?

there is nothing wrong with fedora compiler

[trifud]

They still don't have complete C++17 support which irritates me a lot. Unbelievably, Visual Studio has better C++17 support - even better than Clang: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support

[sdack]

Any reason they couldn't have delayed Fedora 28 a week for this?

If you're asking for the entire distro to be compiled with gcc-8 instead of gcc-7 then you're looking at quite a bit of work. If all you want is to have access to the newer compiler then I'm sure you'll be able to pick it up soon in an update.

[carewolf]

They still don't have complete C++17 support which irritates me a lot. Unbelievably, Visual Studio has better C++17 support - even better than Clang: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support

Take a second look. Gcc have had full C++17 support since gcc 7. The one block you can see red, is not part of C++17 or would not be implemented by the compiler, it is an standardization of an optional extension of the standard library, if you want it talk to the libstdc++ and libc++ guys, not the compiler guys.