GCC 7.1 Compiler Released

Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 2 May 2017 at 12:58 PM EDT. 5 Comments
GNU
The GNU Compiler Collection 7 (GCC 7) stable release is now available with today's announcement of GCC 7.1.

GCC 7.1 features experimental support for all of the C++17 draft, various performance improvements, improved debugging/diagnostics, optimization work, various hardware-specific improvements, OpenMP 4.5 offloading to NVIDIA PTX, and much more. More details in Changes To Find With The Upcoming Release Of GCC 7.

Under GCC's (awkward) versioning scheme, GCC 7.1.0 is the first stable release of GCC7. GCC 8.0 is now being developed on master while GCC 7.2.0 will be the first point release to GCC 7, etc. Download links for GCC 7.1 from the release announcement.
Related News
About The Author
Michael Larabel

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.

Popular News This Week