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The Gnu Compiler Collection, Version 3.4
The Gnu Compiler Collection, Version 3.4
Posted Apr 29, 2004 4:05 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)Parent article: The Gnu Compiler Collection, Version 3.4
Two immediate remarks: First, programs and libraries that do a lot of pointer casting will probably need to add "-fno-strict-aliasing" to their CFLAGS settings, or suffer mysterious bugs. Second, the iostreams in the new libstdc++ are enormously faster than in previous releases, thanks largely to an enormous amount of work by Paolo Carlini, Petur Runolfsson, and Jerry Quinn.
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The Gnu Compiler Collection, Version 3.4
Posted Apr 29, 2004 5:17 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
Programs that violate ISO C aliasing rules are likely to break with earlier GCC releases as well.