GCC 4.3.0 Released w/ SSE4 Support

Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 11 March 2008 at 01:45 PM EDT. 10 Comments
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GCC 4.2.0 was released less than a year ago, but arriving yesterday was the release of GCC 4.3.0. Version 4.3.0 of the GNU Compiler Collection has its middle-end integrated with the MPFR math library, experimental support for the forthcoming C++0x ISO standard, GCJ now uses the Eclipse Java Compiler for Java parsing, all Java 1.5 language features now supported by both the compiler and at run-time, and new GCJ Java tools. GCC 4.3.0 also has performance tuning for the Intel Core 2 and AMD Geode processors. In addition, there is now support for Intel's SSE4.1, and SSE4.2 instruction sets. There are many more changes, so be sure to check out the GCC 4.3 change-log. The release announcement on the GNU mailing list provides additional details.
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