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Re: gcc versions: stable vs development

On 03/28/2012 04:53 PM, Tom Roche wrote: 
Thanks for all the help getting a gfortran for our cluster ...
but one more question. The admin says he's using the 4.6 binary, since

Neither GCC 4.7 nor 4.8 are stable, they are development snapshots
(beta releases).
so I'd like to know:

1 Is that correct?

2 In general, how does one tell if a given gcc release is development
   or stable? I note

* the list of releases @

http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html

says nothing about which releases are development or stable.

* the release page for 4.7.0

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/

says only that it "is a major release."

TIA, Tom Roche<Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
I think you found your answer. 4.7.0 was released since your admin formed that opinion. My only reservation is that g++ 4.7 is incompatible with Intel C++. If that matters, 4.6.3 is good. No problems with Fortran or C.

--
Tim Prince

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