Marek Polacek
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New C++ features in GCC 14
Marek Polacek
Discover new features and enhancements in the C++ front end in GCC 14, the next major version of the GNU Compiler Collection.
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New C++ features in GCC 13
Marek Polacek
Get an overview of what's new in GCC 13, the latest GNU Compiler Collection release, including bug fixes and new features in the C++ front end.
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New C features in GCC 13
Marek Polacek
The GNU Compiler Collection 13 release implemented a number of interesting features in its C front-end. This article summarizes the most interesting ones.
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New C++ features in GCC 12
Marek Polacek
Version 12 of GCC implements much of the recent C++ standard, allows a number of previously prohibited constructs, and fixes some problematic behaviors.
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Porting your code to C++17 with GCC 11
Marek Polacek
C++17 is now the default version in the GNU Compiler Collection. Find out what you need to know when updating your code to C++17 with GCC 11.
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New C++ features in GCC 10
Marek Polacek
Explore the front end-based C++ features that C++ application programmers care most about in GCC 10.1 (G++ 10.1), which include many C++20 proposals.
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Understanding when not to std::move in C++
Marek Polacek
New warnings have been added to GCC 9 that can help with wrong or redundant usage of std::move in C++ code. Learn how to enable them.
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-Wimplicit-fallthrough in GCC 7
Marek Polacek
(See this article to install GCC 7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.) In C and C++, the cases of a switch statement are in fact labels, and the switch is essentially a go to that jumps to the desired label. Since labels do not change the flow of control, one case block falls through to the following case block, unless terminated by a return, a break, a no return call or similar. In the example below, " case 1" falls...

New C++ features in GCC 14
Discover new features and enhancements in the C++ front end in GCC 14, the next major version of the GNU Compiler Collection.

New C++ features in GCC 13
Get an overview of what's new in GCC 13, the latest GNU Compiler Collection release, including bug fixes and new features in the C++ front end.

New C features in GCC 13
The GNU Compiler Collection 13 release implemented a number of interesting features in its C front-end. This article summarizes the most interesting ones.

New C++ features in GCC 12
Version 12 of GCC implements much of the recent C++ standard, allows a number of previously prohibited constructs, and fixes some problematic behaviors.

Porting your code to C++17 with GCC 11
C++17 is now the default version in the GNU Compiler Collection. Find out what you need to know when updating your code to C++17 with GCC 11.

New C++ features in GCC 10
Explore the front end-based C++ features that C++ application programmers care most about in GCC 10.1 (G++ 10.1), which include many C++20 proposals.

Understanding when not to std::move in C++
New warnings have been added to GCC 9 that can help with wrong or redundant usage of std::move in C++ code. Learn how to enable them.

-Wimplicit-fallthrough in GCC 7