GCC-GNU Compiler Collection version 4.6.0 is out!

Mar 27, 2011 By Ramesh Jha in C/C++, Linux, News No Comments Tags: C programming, gcc, GCC compiler, latest

GCC(GNU Compiler Collection, version 4.6 was released a day ago) is a compiler available free under GPL by GNU Foundation. it is cross platform and is written using c/c++. Actually GCC has a major role in the growth of open source/Free Software world, in the past few years.

A majority of C/C++ programmers uses GCC, on Linux based operating systems as well as on Windows/Mac OS X. Since I uses Ubuntu 10.10 as my primary desktop; I know how important ,the gcc is, for programming Fun. GCC is mainly used as a compiler for C,C++,java,Fortran,Pascal,Ada,Objective-C.

A lot of extra features can be added with help of freely available plugins. GCC is one of the best compiler for c programmers.

Programming with gcc

New Features in GCC 4.6

Support for GO Programming Language has been added
New Optimizer Levels(-Ofast) has been introduced
Improvements in compiler time and Memory Usage
other platform specific improvements

GCC vs 4.6.0 has released(on March 25,2011). Go here for Complete details on the features of GCC.

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