GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX & Algol 68
GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is nearly ready for its official debut as this year's major feature release for this open-source compiler.
The GCC 16 code is now branched in Git with the last 14 remaining P1 regressions (issues of the highest priority) having now been resolved. Jakub Jelinek at Red Hat on the GCC release engineering team announced today that the remaining P1 regressions have been zeroed out and in turn the releases/gcc-16 release branch created.
In turn GCC 17.0.0 is now open in GCC Git.
We should be seeing the official GCC 16.1 stable release in the next few weeks once the branched GCC 16 code has received additional testing and any last minute fixes. As usual, the major GNU Compiler Collection release of the year typically occurs in the April~May timeframe.
GCC 16 brings many changes including the Algol 68 programming language front-end, C++20 standard by default, AMD Zen 6 "znver6" initial support, support for using the Picolibc embedded C library, AVX10.2 and APX support is ready for Intel Nova Lake, various performance optimizations, Intel Wildcat Lake targeting support, a higher default LTO partition count to deal with today's higher core count processors, function multi-versioning on ARM64 is no longer experimental, and many other changes throughout this dominant open-source compiler stack.
GCC 16 compiler benchmarks soon on Phoronix.
The GCC 16 code is now branched in Git with the last 14 remaining P1 regressions (issues of the highest priority) having now been resolved. Jakub Jelinek at Red Hat on the GCC release engineering team announced today that the remaining P1 regressions have been zeroed out and in turn the releases/gcc-16 release branch created.
In turn GCC 17.0.0 is now open in GCC Git.
We should be seeing the official GCC 16.1 stable release in the next few weeks once the branched GCC 16 code has received additional testing and any last minute fixes. As usual, the major GNU Compiler Collection release of the year typically occurs in the April~May timeframe.
GCC 16 brings many changes including the Algol 68 programming language front-end, C++20 standard by default, AMD Zen 6 "znver6" initial support, support for using the Picolibc embedded C library, AVX10.2 and APX support is ready for Intel Nova Lake, various performance optimizations, Intel Wildcat Lake targeting support, a higher default LTO partition count to deal with today's higher core count processors, function multi-versioning on ARM64 is no longer experimental, and many other changes throughout this dominant open-source compiler stack.
GCC 16 compiler benchmarks soon on Phoronix.