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It's worth noting that, due to GCC's new and esoteric version numbering scheme[1], this is a bugfix-only release on the 5.x branch. The bigger news was when GC

by agwa 11y ago

It's worth noting that, due to GCC's new and esoteric version numbering scheme[1], this is a bugfix-only release on the 5.x branch. The bigger news was when GCC 5.1 (a major stable release) was released in April. That said, GCC 5.2 fixes a pretty serious bug that I was hitting so I'm happy to hear about it! [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#num_scheme https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#num_scheme

rst 11y ago
They switched the default C compilation mode from --std=gnu89 to --std=gnu11 in a bugfix-only release?
- agwa 11y ago
  No, they did that in 5.1. The linked page is mostly about the overall 5.x series, with a tiny little section at the bottom about 5.2.
- uxcn 11y ago
  I hope more projects start using it (or C99) over C89.
3JPLW 11y ago
Woah, new and esoteric indeed! X.0.0 is experimental development X.0.1 is pre-release stabilization stage X.1.0 is the stable release X.1.1 is development of release branch (fixes and backports) X.2.0 is the second stable release It looks like only X.1.0, X.2.0, etc uniquely tag a single point in the development history. Are all the others just moving labels?