GNU Compiler Collection 6.3 Fixes 79 Bugs as GCC 7 Is Nearing End of Development

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Red Hat’s Jakub Jelinek was proud to announce the release and immediate availability of the third stabilization update to the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 6 series for GNU/Linux distributions.

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 6.3 is here four months after the release of the previous maintenance update, namely GCC 6.2, and promises to address many of the bugs and annoyances reported by users since then. According to the developers, it looks like more than 79 recorder bugs have been fixed in this new version.

“GCC 6.3 is a bug-fix release from the GCC 6 branch containing important fixes for regressions and serious bugs in GCC 6.2 with more than 79 bugs fixed since the previous release,” said Jakub Jelinek, Consulting Engineer at Red Hat, in the brief release announcement.

The full changelog, which might come in handy for those of you curious to know what exactly has been changed in this release, can be fou… (read more)

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