GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 7.1 Released to Celebrate 30 Years Since GCC 1.0

Jakub Jelinek happily reports today, May 2, 2017, for the GCC project on the general availability of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 7.1.0, the latest and most advanced release of the open-source and free compiler for the GNU system.

Believe it or not, GCC 7.1 marks the 30th anniversary of GNU Compiler Collection’s first Beta release. It’s a major release featuring lots of new functionality and improvements that aren’t available in the GCC 6.x or any other previous branch of the project, which makes it the recommended version for all platforms using GCC.

“This year we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first GCC beta release and this month we will celebrate 30 years since the GCC 1.0 release,” said Jakub Jelinek in the mailing list announcement. “GCC 7.1 is a major release containing substantial new functionality not available in GCC 6.x or previous GCC releases.”

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