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Re: GCC 14.1

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This release carries significant improvements in RISC-V support.

With hopefully more to come! There's a RISE project proposal being kicked around to improve vectorization support.

Re: GCC 14.1

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post #5
post #4

This release carries significant improvements in RISC-V support.

With hopefully more to come! There's a RISE project proposal being kicked around to improve vectorization support.

I didn't realize RISC-V already has so many extensions. I just briefly looked over them and apparently they are often just small parts which get grouped up into larger extensions, but I hope the extension "mess" won't kill risc-v in the end. Still very excited about RISC-V progress

Re: GCC 14.1

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Is Ada being used in the industry? Looks actually quite fun to play with from changelog additions. I didn’t realise it’s still under active development.

Re: GCC 14.1

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It's worth noting that this release breaks a lot of older code, see: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Modern_C_porting#What_changed.3...

It enables a few -Werror flags by default, refusing to compile code with probable undefined behavior. Unfortunately, a lot of older code subtly raises these warnings (now hard errors), even in cases where it's "fine" (due to valid platform assumptions).

Re: GCC 14.1

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With hopefully more to come! There's a RISE project proposal being kicked around to improve vectorization support.

I didn't realize RISC-V already has so many extensions. I just briefly looked over them and apparently they are often just small parts which get grouped up into larger extensions, but I hope the extension "mess" won't kill risc-v in the end. Still very excited about RISC-V progress

You may like ... https://research.redhat.com/blog/article/risc-v-extensions-w...

I don't think extensions are a "mess", certainly they're much less of a mess than x86 (a low bar, I know ...)

Re: GCC 14.1

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Is Ada being used in the industry? Looks actually quite fun to play with from changelog additions. I didn’t realise it’s still under active development.

It's pretty famously used by the US government for safety-critical software.
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