GCC 5 Is One Week Away From Landing In Ubuntu 15.10

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GCC 5 Is One Week Away From Landing In Ubuntu 15.10

21 July 2015, 04:10 AM

Phoronix: GCC 5 Is One Week Away From Landing In Ubuntu 15.10

Debian unstable is switching to GCC 5 and so is Ubuntu 15.10. Here's the latest update on the planned transition from GCC 4.9 to GCC 5.2 by month's end...

GCC 5 Is One Week Away From Landing In Ubuntu 15.10 - Phoronix

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21 July 2015, 08:45 AM

Apparently using the new ABI breaks clang. I'm guessing clang will no longer work in Ubuntu after this change ?

23529 – Add support for gcc's attribute abi_tag (needed for compatibility with gcc 5's libstdc++)

https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23529
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