GCC 7.0 Now In Development, GCC 6.1 Likely Coming Next Week

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC 7.0 Now In Development, GCC 6.1 Likely Coming Next Week

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) made it today to having no P1 regressions (the highest priority) and thus they've now branched the code for the GCC 6 series, GCC 7.0 is now on the master branch, and GCC 6.1 should be released next week...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-7.0-GCC-6.1-Next-Week

[gufide]

Stupid version name...

What did not work with the previous version numbers?

[FireBurn]

Stupid version name...

What did not work with the previous version numbers?

I have to agree - way more complicated

Does anyone know when GCC 5.4 will be released - there's a known issue compiling Wine with the GCC 5.x series

[pal666]

What did not work with the previous version numbers?

unused first digit did not work

[milkylainen]

Even GCC is lining up for the Firefox numbering scheme. This started when LLVM/Clang came along.
It is a sad world. Projects compete in having the highest major number version.
Can't wait for the first large project triple digit, or when they start incrementing versions in decas...

[slacka]

If the only thing trolls on Phoronix can whine about is the switch to semantic versioning, gcc dev's are doing a great job. I for one, am very impressed with the improvements in the optimizer. They're making it really hard for LLVM/clang team to ever catch up.

[Mystro256]

If the only thing trolls on Phoronix can whine about is the switch to semantic versioning, gcc dev's are doing a great job. I for one, am very impressed with the improvements in the optimizer. They're making it really hard for LLVM/clang team to ever catch up.

Agreed, I don't know why a version number is so important at the end of the day, as long as breaking changes are clear, which they are (e.g. 5.X -> 6.X).

... I mean personally I feel like 5.99 would be better than using 6.0 as the RC, but honestly it really doesn't matter.

[mlau]

Does anyone know when GCC 5.4 will be released - there's a known issue compiling Wine with the GCC 5.x series

wine runs fine here built with 5.3. There's been an msABI bug early in the 5 series, but that has been fixed almost half a year ago I think.

[caligula]

They could also start working on GCC 7-9 now like Firefox development works. Lots of new versions in the pipeline. Maybe some new user interface themes.

[tessio]

If the only thing trolls on Phoronix can whine about is the switch to semantic versioning, gcc dev's are doing a great job. I for one, am very impressed with the improvements in the optimizer. They're making it really hard for LLVM/clang team to ever catch up.

Catch up? Clang already surpassed GCC..

https://lwn.net/Articles/629259/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10772826

https://www.kdevelop.org/news/first-beta-release-kdevelop-500-available