The GNU Compiler Collection will be refreshed with updated C++ standards compliance and improvements in parallelism and diagnostics.
Described as a "major" release, GCC 6.1 leverages the C++ 14 standard, which was approved in 2014. "The C++ front end now defaults to the C++ 14 standard, instead of C++98, [which] it has been defaulting to previously," said Jakub Jelinek, a Red Hat consulting engineer and a co-release manager of GCC, in a bulletin.
Also, experimental support for C++17, which is due later this year, has been enhanced in GCC 6.1. GNU is offering instructions for developers who still may need to use older versions of C++. GCC 6.1, a free software update, is available from FTP servers.
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