Re: GCC 13.1 Released

[Christoph Schlegel]

Gaius,

congratulations! Thank you for your continued work,
great support and for bringing Modula-2 to literally millions and
more potential users who are now able to get in touch with Modula-2
much more easily.

Sincerely,
Christoph

Am Wed, 26 Apr 2023 14:48:58 -0400
schrieb john o goyo <jog37@riddermarkfarm.ca>:

> Greetings, gm2 Users.
> 
> Please join me in congratulating Gaius in having Modula-2 integrated
> in GCC.
> 
> Sincerely,
> john
> 
> P.S. Now that gm2 is part of GCC, can we still use the gm2@nongnu.org 
> address?
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: GCC 13.1 Released
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:20:42 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Richard Biener via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> Reply-To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> To: gcc-announce@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, info-gnu@gnu.org
> 
> 
> The GCC developers are proud to announce a new major GCC release,
> 13.1.
> 
> This release integrates a frontend for the Modula-2 language which
> was previously available separately and lays foundation for a
> frontend for the Rust language which will be available in a future
> release.
> 
> Support for emitting the STABS debugging format was removed.  GCC
> supports DWARF in almost all configurations.
> 
> The C frontend got support for several C23 features, the C++ frontend
> for C++23 features.  The C++ standard library experimental support for
> C++20 and C++23 was enhanced.  For the C family of languages you can
> now use -fstrict-flex-arrays[=level] to control the behavior for the
> various legacy forms of specifying flexible array members.
> 
> GCCs static analyzer has been greatly improved with 20 new diagnostic
> kinds.
> 
> Link-time optimization now makes automatic use of GNU makes jobserver
> when that supports named pipes which it does starting with version
> 4.4. It is no longer required to alter makefiles.
> 
> Support for new CPU features in the ARM, x86 family, RISC-V and
> LoongArch were added.  Notably RISC-V supports vector intrinsics as
> specified in the 0.11 specification and OpenMP/OpenACC offloading to
> AMD Instinct MI200 series devices has been added.
> 
> Some code that compiled successfully with older GCC versions might
> require source changes, see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/porting_to.html
> for details.
> 
> See
> 
>    https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/changes.html
> 
> for more information about changes in GCC 13.1.
> 
> This release is available from the WWW and FTP servers listed here:
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-13.1.0/
>   https://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
> 
> The release is in the gcc-13.1.0/ subdirectory.
> 
> If you encounter difficulties using GCC 13.1, please do not contact me
> directly.  Instead, please visit http://gcc.gnu.org for information
> about getting help.
> 
> Driving a leading free software project such as GCC would not be
> possible without support from its many contributors.
> Not only its developers, but especially its regular testers and users
> which contribute to its high quality.  The list of individuals
> is too large to thank individually!
>