GCC 8.4 Released

March 4, the GNU Project announced the latest release of the GNU Compiler Collection 8th series ‘GCC 8.4’.

GCC is a compiler collection whose development originally began as ‘GNU C Compiler,’ a compiler for GNU OS. As it began expanding its support to multiple languages, such as C++, Objective-C, Go, and Fortran, the name was changed to ‘GNU Compiler Collection’.

GCC 8.4 is the latest stable release of the 8th series, which made its first appearance in May 2018. This release follows v8.3, which was released at the beginning of 2019, and it focuses on bug fixes. By the way, the latest branch is the 9th series, which came out in 2019, and the team is currently working on v10, which is expected to be the next major release.

Many ICE related bugs have been fixed. The problem that an inaccurate error message got repeatedly shown during compilation in cases where ‘-O2’ / ‘-O3’ optimization option is enabled has been fixed. Also, the problem that the performance was brought down by 10% on Intel Skylake server, which was a problem specific to the 8th series, has been fixed. In addition, a lot of the bugs that were common in all 8th, 9th, and 10th series have been fixed as well.

GCC 8.4 is available on the project website.

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