Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is publicly available, we thought RHEL application developers would be interested in seeing how the new C/C++ toolchain compares to the equivalent in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in terms of raw performance. The numbers are pretty surprising so stay tuned. But first, a little introduction to set the scene. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 GCC Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 shipped in November 2010 with gcc-4.4. As with all major new versions...
Red Hat has actively participated in the ISO group defining the C++ standard for many years, and continues to make a significant contribution. The Red Hat toolchain team was well-represented at the February 2014 meeting of the standardization committee (JTC1/SC22/WG21) in Issaquah, WA, USA. In this article, Jason Merrill summarizes the main highlights and developments of interest to Red Hat's customers and partners: In February, Red Hat sent three engineers to the C++ standards committee meeting in Issaquah, WA. The...
We've just over a month to go until Red Hat Summit 2014 and the newly rebranded DevNation conference open their doors in San Francisco's Moscone Center South, located in the heart of downtown San Francisco. While we're putting the finishing touches to our great new product releases for developers, we're also really looking forward to attending the conferences ourselves. They present a great opportunity for like-minded developers to come together, see what's new and share ideas - all part of...
For the last couple of years, Red Hat has presented Red Hat Developer Toolset features, roadmaps and demonstrations at Red Hat Summit and co-located developer events. This year, we'll be attending both Red Hat Summit and DevNation, both of which are happening slightly earlier in the year, in April (13-17 to be exact) at San Francisco's Moscone Center. I'll be attending and showing audiences the Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.1 update, complete with video demonstrations so you can see as...
One of the really useful tools provided by Red Hat Developer Toolset v2.x is " memstomp", which helps you identify a particularly nasty class of bug in applications built (directly or indirectly) from C/C++ code so you can then fix them before your customers experience problems. In this brief article, I'll explain the background for the tool, how to get it, how to use it yourself and briefly how it works. Background The memcpy() routine in the standard C library...
Red Hat Developer Toolset v2.0 was released earlier this year and has received some great feedback from developers, which is always great to hear. But perhaps you'd like to see Red Hat Developer Toolset in action rather than reading about it. If so, here's a recording of a live demo showing you some of the great new features, including the option to create and deploy your C++ application to Red Hat OpenShift from right within the Eclipse IDE. In addition...
Red Hat has actively participated in the ISO group defining the C++ standard for many years, and continues to make a significant contribution. The Red Hat toolchain team was well-represented at the spring meeting of the standardization committee (technically JTC1/SC22/WG21) in Bristol, UK, last month: we had three people there for the full week, with one other visiting a couple of times during the week. In this article, Jason Merrill summarizes the main highlights and developments of interest to Red...
As a C, C++, or Fortran developer, you want easy access to supported versions of the latest and greatest tools, features and standards support. You also want to write and test your application once for deployment to multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. At Red Hat Summit this year I'll be giving a talk on our latest development tools, including news on Red Hat Developer Toolset. Your first opportunity to hear that talk, however, will be at the Red...
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