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GCC 15.1 Released With COBOL Compiler & Many Other Improvements


GCC 15.1 was just released as the newest annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection

This first stable GCC 15 release brings a COBOL compiler front-end, many C and C++ language support improvements, support for new CPUs and ISA capabilities, better Rust programming language support, debugging enhancements, and a whole lot more. GCC 15.1 delivers a COBOL language front-end, various usability enhancements, many Rust programming language improvements for gccrs, moves its default C language version to C23, AMD Zen 5 "znver5" target improvements among other new AMD Zen target optimizations, Intel Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids targeting, Intel AVX10.2 support for the new 512-bit-only revision, more Intel Advanced Performance Extensions "APX" enablement, removal of Xeon Phi support, OpenMP offloading enhancements, and many other changes from hardware support to language features. Downloads and more information on the GCC 15.1 stable compiler release via gcc.gnu.org.

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