ANN: GCC 7.1.0 for macOS

ANN: GCC 7.1.0 for macOS

[Simon Wright]

GCC 7.1.0 for macOS El Capitan and Sierra, built for C, C++, Ada,
Fortran, Objective-C, and Objective-C++, and including Ada ASIS, AUnit,
GDB, Gprbuild, GNATColl, and XML/Ada, is available at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_GCC%20Mac%20OS%20X/7.1.0/native-2016

Re: ANN: GCC 7.1.0 for macOS

[Vincent]

Le lundi 15 mai 2017 21:14:19 UTC+2, Simon Wright a écrit :
Thank you Simon, I installed it yesterday evening, and it works well !
Kind regards,
Vincent Diemunsch

Re: ANN: GCC 7.1.0 for macOS

[Leo Brewin]

Hi Simon,

Many thanks for your efforts, greatly appreciated. 

I note that this release is for macOS EL Capitan. Can I use this release for macOS Sierra? (I'm happy to test it for you.) And also, what do I gain in moving from Ada GCC 6.1 to GCC 7.1?

Cheers,
Leo

Re: ANN: GCC 7.1.0 for macOS

[Simon Wright]

Leo Brewin <leo.brewin@internode.on.net> writes:

> I note that this release is for macOS EL Capitan. Can I use this
> release for macOS Sierra? (I'm happy to test it for you.) And also,
> what do I gain in moving from Ada GCC 6.1 to GCC 7.1?

At the front of the posting here I said "GCC 7.1.0 for macOS El Capitan
and Sierra"! but I see I didn't say that at sf.net; will correct that
ASAP.

My main machine runs Sierra, but I've kept the older one with the
cracked glass running El Capitan. I found that if I build the compiler
(more specifically the RTS, I think) on Sierra, using it on ElC results
in lots of link-time warnings about "built for a later release of the
operating system"; so I built on ElC and verified on Sierra.

I'm afraid I don't have a list of benefits! There are a couple of
regressions from 6.1.0[1,2] but no other problems I'm aware of.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80784
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80790

Re: ANN: GCC 7.1.0 for macOS

[Leo Brewin]

Hi Simon,

Oops, my fault. I didn't read the start of your first post with enough care.

Even if there are no obvious benefits, somehow it just feels good (to me) to be working with the latest GCC :).

Cheers,
Leo

Re: ANN: GCC 7.1.0 for macOS

[Simon Wright]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> I'm afraid I don't have a list of benefits! There are a couple of
> regressions from 6.1.0[1,2] but no other problems I'm aware of.
>
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80784
> [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80790

These will be fixed in the 7.2 release.