Tuesday, March 29, 2011

GCC 4.6.0: faster executables

Following toolchain GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), well known by lovers of "free" comes to version 4.6.0. On the menu: spring cleaning, support for multiple programming languages and various improvements and varied. The arrival of this new version is an opportunity to clean house within the supported architectures, processors and some systems are considered obsolete.

The Cortex-M4 are now supported, while the multimedia unit of Neon Cortex-A9 is now supported. LEON processors, and IBM z196 Loongson 3A are also supported by GCC 4.6.0 as well as the Cortex-A15 as an experiment. User-Ofast optimization, allowing the creation of executable very fast at the expense of strict adherence to standards, also makes its appearance.

Many languages are supported: Ada, C, C + +, Fortran, Java and Objective-C but also GB (Google). Finally, note that GCC 4.6.0 is able to create native applications via the Android C library Bionic.

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