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Tag: C

GCC 15.1

May 2nd, 2025

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/changes.html
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February 15th, 2025
The FreeBSD Gods

January 14th, 2025

bsdimp is by far the most prolific FreeBSD contributor with just over 10k commits. His first commit was on 1996-09-22 on the 2.2.0 RELEASE.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/graphs/contributors
GCC sets C23 as the default

November 17th, 2024

The default language version for C compilation was set to -std=gnu23 from -std=gnu17

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/55e3bd376b2214e200fa76d12b67ff259b06c212
CMake 3.30 released

July 3rd, 2024

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.30/release/3.30.html
Clang enables C2Y mode, the successor of C2X

July 2nd, 2024

Clang now enables C2y mode with -std=c2y. This sets __STDC_VERSION__ to 202400L.

C2Y refers to the successor of C2X, the major 2024 revision of the C programming language.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/b67d557bd3627a428d5041edec129587d6d3972c
Google sponsors C++/Rust interoperability

February 5th, 2024

Google invests $1M USD to the Rust Foundation.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Rust-Better-CPP-Interop

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/02/improving-interoperability-between-rust-and-c.html
“Nothing better than C”

December 25th, 2023