Recapping The New Features Of GCC 6: OpenMP 4.5, HSA, C++14, AMD Zen & More

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Phoronix: Recapping The New Features Of GCC 6: OpenMP 4.5, HSA, C++14, AMD Zen & More

As GCC 6 should be officially released soon, here's a quick overview of the improvements and new features for this yearly free software compiler update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC6-Feature-Recap

[Mystro256]

I'd love to see some benchmarks against the improved linking

[hoohoo]

I wish the committee would drop the attributes thing. It is a bad idea and makes for obscure code: side effects raised to first class language feature.

[Adarion]

That sounds like it will be an interesting release. Also likely to be in time once Gentoo hits the first Zen CPUs/APUs. Also rising HSA support is a good thing, hopefully this will pave the road for future programs making better use of it.

[RealNC]

I wish the committee would drop the attributes thing. It is a bad idea and makes for obscure code: side effects raised to first class language feature.

Which attributes have side-effects? To me it seems they just enhance diagnostics, optimizations and static analysis.

[hoohoo]

Which attributes have side-effects? To me it seems they just enhance diagnostics, optimizations and static analysis.

I was cognitively disonancized. I was thinking about Java annotations.