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Re:GCC 5.2 released by agwa on Thursday July 16, 2015 @11:37AM (#9897851)
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

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Re:GCC 5.2 released by 3JPLW on Thursday July 16, 2015 @01:53PM (#9898784)
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?
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Re:GCC 5.2 released by rst on Thursday July 16, 2015 @01:19PM (#9898523)
They switched the default C compilation mode from --std=gnu89 to --std=gnu11 in a bugfix-only release?
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Re:GCC 5.2 released by agwa on Thursday July 16, 2015 @01:24PM (#9898551)
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.
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Re:GCC 5.2 released by uxcn on Thursday July 16, 2015 @03:02PM (#9899242)
I hope more projects start using it (or C99) over C89.
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